Publisher's Synopsis
Each year at Hallowe'en a huge decorated wheel is set on fire to run blazing over the cliff-top into the Cornish sea. Fastened to the wheel is a grotesque life-size straw effigy of a man. Could this be the way Jonathan Riddle has been disposed of? Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a wide range of suspects. All the Riddle family had motive and opportunity and he had other enemies in the town. Wycliffe arrives with meticulous precision at a seemingly impossible solution.
