London: Michael Joseph, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A later title in this series featuring Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, and - in this case, her grandniece Fenella Lestrange who discovers five recent skeletons in the crypt beneath an old inn. A novel "steeped in British folklore, and the secret midnight rituals in which the whole town apparently participates carry a dark fascination. Representations of pagan fertility rites, the Green Man, Zodiac symbols, and water and tree worship can be found here, most of it based on legend and lore, some of it springing from Miss Mitchell's wonderful imagination. . . The old lady is at her most benign here, and there's not a trace of her shrieking, lively former self from the days before the bestowment of the royal title. But even with a subdued Dame Beatrice, Gladys Mitchell offers such unique stories with such bizarre elements that the straightforward telling merely emphasizes the strange world in which Fenella finds herself." (Jason Half) 222 pp. ISBN: 0-718110005.