Contents

 

Author’s Note

1948

The Present Day

 

Chapter 1 A Cry for Help

Chapter 2 Trial by Trailer

Chapter 3 Five Muskets Farm

Chapter 4 The Message

Chapter 5 The Monk

Chapter 6 The Intruders

Chapter 7 The Gates of Hades

Chapter 8 Sky’s the Limit

Chapter 9 A Tale of Two Tapes

Chapter 10 The Voice from Beyond the Grave

Chapter 11 Rock and Roll

Chapter 12 Monks and Habits

Chapter 13 The Crew of The Mary Jane

Chapter 14 Guppy

Chapter 15 The Horns of Lucifer

Chapter 16 The Wreck

Chapter 17 The Man in the Wheelchair

Chapter 18 Inspector Morse

Chapter 19 Daedalus

Chapter 20 Hot Pursuit

Chapter 21 Checked Out

Chapter 22 Through the Arched Window

Chapter 23 Pointers and Signals

Chapter 24 Coded Messages

Chapter 25 The Napoleonic Answer

Chapter 26 A Corpse of Mistaken Identity

Chapter 27 When did you last see your Grandfather?

Chapter 28 An Encounter

Chapter 29 Babbling

Chapter 30 From Beyond the Grave

Chapter 31 Wrong Guy

Chapter 32 More Tea, Vicar?

Chapter 33 Emily

Chapter 34 What’s in the Box?

Chapter 35 It’s a Knock-out

Chapter 36 The Morning Tide

Chapter 37 Here comes the Cavalry

Chapter 38 The Bones of a Story

Chapter 39 Through the Rectangular Window

Chapter 40 For Whom the Bell Tolls

Chapter 41 The Richness of His Life

Chapter 42 Last Respects