The Missing Grave

"Who would need to employ a gardener to dig a grave?"

George Hedges is a simple man, whose life revolves around his work and frequent visits to the local alehouse. After one such visit, he is woken by sounds of an intruder at his remote cottage. Then an unearthly voice in his bedroom threatens him with death. Bound and blindfolded he is taken to an obscure location and told to dig. Initially he thinks the intruder is searching for buried treasure. But then he sees the dead body

When Hedges tells his story, his experiences are written off as a drink-induced dream. But reporter Christopher Davidson is convinced the police have dismissed the tale too lightly an opinion shared by local magistrate's daughter Marjorie Richmond, whose father disappeared on the same evening that Hedges was called on to perform his ghastly errand.

Are Marjorie's worst suspicions correct? If so, who would want to murder her father? And why can nobody discover the site of the missing grave?

Originally published in 1939 this is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.

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