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Contemporary,
Detective,
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British Crime England Murder Murder mystery Mystery Ruth Rendell UK United KingdomWritten by Ruth Rendell
Read by Nigel Anthony
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“Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand.
“The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for 10 years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet.
“The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death.
“The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man’s ribs.
“Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons.
“Men, women and children disappear at an alarming rate, something like 500 every day nationwide.
“So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse.
“And then, only about 20 yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found…”