Death in the stocks
An English bobby returning from night patrol spots a corpse in the moonlight, wearing evening dress and locked in the stocks on the village green. The body is identified as wealthy Arnold Vereker, the occasional inhabitant of a nearby cottage. He was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt, eccentric - and hardly cooperative... It's another case for the resourceful Super...