Publisher's Synopsis
Stranded in the Fenlands on New Year's Eve, Lord Peter Wimsey is offered hospitality by a local Rector and his wife, and offers to take the place of an incapacitated bell-ringer for that night's nine-hour peal in the village church. With New Year's Day comes a death - Lady Thorpe, whose family's lives have for years been overshadowed by the theft of an emerald necklace. By Easter, Sir Henry Thorpe has joined his wife in eternal sleep. But when her grave is opened to inter her husband alongside her, another body is discovered in there - one mutilated beyond recognition...
