The Constable was content to call it a suicide pact. All the evidence was there. The bodies of John Barratt and Mrs Callis were discovered in a lovers' nook among some bracken.
Beside them was a pistol with Barratt's fingerprints on it, and torn up letters in the handwriting of Barratt and Mrs Callis were scattered around. Arrangements for the elopement had apparently been complete. Why had their plans fallen through? Why had they turned their backs on the railway station with tickets to London in their pockets?
Sir Clinton Driffield is not so sure that the obvious solution is the right one ...
- ISBN10 1471906191
- ISBN13 9781471906190
- Publish Date 28 November 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Murder Room
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 280
- Language English