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Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is flat broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where ‘intelligence is essential’, he applies.
Thus begins Sefton’s association with Professor Swanton Morley, autodidact. Morley intends to write a history of England, county by county. His assistant must be able to tolerate his every eccentricity – and withstand the attentions of his beguiling daughter, Miriam.
The trio begin the project in Norfolk, but when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church’s bell rope, they find themselves drawn into a fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life, or was it – murder
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