London: Collins Crime Club, (1989). Hardcover first edition - An "Irreverently humorous novel enhanced by the ambience of the Saracen's Head outside London where performers have gathered since medieval days to re-create, fittingly, Elizabethan entertainments. Under the new management of Des Capper, a 'loathsome know-all,' the inn becomes a crime scene when he is murdered and all present, save one, had cause to kill the bounder." (Publisher's Weekly). A young Charlie Peace makes a brief appearance. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-002322447.