Songs of the Noontide Rest (1875)

Detective Inspector Victor Dennis and Sergeant Bradley Stevens of the City of Hull C.I.D. are called in when a body is unearthed in a field which has been used as a cattle meadow for many years. Following the clues across the East Riding of Yorkshire, they uncover the ultimate retirement schemes of the murdered man; schemes comprising blackmail and a multi-million pound fraud that wasnat a fraud. Or was it? How and why did it all go wrong? Who were his accomplices and why did his victims seem so pleased with their investment instead of complaining to the Police? And where was the money? It takes the inspector and his colleagues exactly one month to solve the murder and to unravel the financial web.