[Chief Inspector Littlejohn 29] • Corpse At The Carnival

It is holiday time in Douglas, and a carnival crowd engulfs a solitary, elderly man, who is peacefully gazing out to sea. When the procession passes, the old man quietly dies. He is found to have a knife would in his back. He is, at first, merely an anonymous victim, known casually by a few locals as Uncle Fred. Superintendent Littlejohn, calling to visit his old friend, the Rev Caesar Kinrade, Archdeacon of Man, on his way home from a police conference in Dublin, is asked by his comrade, Insepctor Knell, of the Manx C I D, to give him a hand in the case, unofficially.