A letter comes to the newly promoted Superintendent Littlejohn, addressed to his now title. From the little town of Abbot's Caldicott, the letter asserts that a murder was committed there. When Littlejohn calls down to the the local Sergeant, a man named Plumtree, Littlejohn isn't impressed. Apparently, the only person who is out of town is the local doctor, Beharrell. And then it's discovered that the man is actually still in his house, in a hidden room, dead.
Littlejohn comes down to investigate and discovers a web of gossip and deceit that has been going on for decades and it all seems to center around the doctor's wife who disappeared suddenly one night with her supposed lover.
A good book and fairly clued, it did take a bit to wade through.
Four stars
This book came out in 1957
Follows Death in High Provence
Followed by Corpse at the Carnival
Ebook borrowed from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own
