

The only exception is Melrose Plant, a local who has long links to the area. The residents of Long Piddleton wonder who among them is the guilty party. Are the murders related and if so how?While Jury is investigating these first murders, two more pub murders happen. The men are no locals and no one knows either of them. He is hanging from the beam of the pub’s sign.Scotland Yard sends Jury out to solve these murders. Shortly after, another man is found dead at the Jack and Hammer pub. He has been strangled, then placed hanging out of a beer keg with his head submerged in the keg. A man is found murdered in the cellar of the Man With a Load of Mischief pub.


This is the first book in the Richard Jury mystery series.It is winter in Long Piddleton, England.
