Editorial Arrow
Fecha de edición abril 2008
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780099517221
336 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury a human hand.
The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs.
Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. Men, women and children disappear at an alarming rate, something like 500 every day nationwide. So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse.
And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found.
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