London: Macmillan, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the award winning series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector John Madden "now retired and living peacefully on a farm in Surrey with his doctor wife and their two children. The year is 1932, and the precipitous rise of the Nazis in Germany leaves many of their fellow countrymen worried for the future peace and stability of the European continent. More immediately concerning for Madden, however, is his discovery of the corpse of a young girl - raped, disfigured, and secreted near a tramps' backwoods campsite. Suspicion falls quickly on a vagrant known as Beezy, but Madden thinks this is more than an isolated homicide" and he quietly begins his own investigation. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-333904095.