Book Description Third in the bestselling series from "one of the established masters of the genre" (Newsweek). Scotland Yard's Richard Jury solves a bizarre murder in an even stranger town-and follows a treasure map to yet another chilling crime... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From the Publisher A spinster whose passion was bird-watching， a dotty peer who pinched pennies， and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in a killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady's manion.But Richard Jury refused preferred to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub， the Anodyne Necklace. There， drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.