[Mr. Mosley 03] • Mosley Went to Mow

The clipping from the HEMP VALLEY ADVERTISER reads: "For Sale: GALLOWS. In good working order." That is only the first of the disturbing things going on in the picturesque town of Hempshaw End. Now an eccentric old lady has vanished, her cottage has been ransacked, and various articles of her antiquated clothing are popping up like mushrooms in the Hemp Valley woods. The best man for the hunt is, of course, Inspector Jack Mosley. But where is he? And why is his briar pipe at the scene of the crime? While Sergeant Beamish scours the English countryside for his missing partner, a spinster and a little girl also disappears. Mosley's infuriatingly nonsensical trail soon leads to the most isolated farmhouses of the valley, and to an old debt that must be repaid in pounds...or blood.