
Superstitious Death
By Nicholas Rhea
The eccentric Detective Inspector Montague Pluke is preparing for the annual shoggling festival in the small Yorkshire town of Crickledale when he discovers the body of a woman in a shallow grave. The woman’s head injury suggests she was murdered, but there is nothing to identify her, and no young women have been reported missing. All Pluke has to go on is the fact that she was buried with a mirror and the pathologist’s declaration that she was a virgin. Enlisting the help of his trusted sidekick Wayne Wain, Pluke embarks on a light-hearted mission to find the truth…