It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley, who sets out on an unnervingly unorthodox investigation into the mysterious pregnancy, an investigation that also takes in a smuggler, the village lunatic, a missing corpse, a public pillory, an exhumation and, of course, a murderer.
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY. Scandal...a missing corpse...a village lunatic...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction.