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'Detectives, in fiction at least, come in all shapes and sizes but few make as much initial impact as Montague Pluke... The strength of the book lies in the characters, especially the eccentric Pluke and his wife, Millicent. But a rich seam of secondary characters wait in the wings... It's original, it's funny - discovering Pluke has been one of life's little pleasures.' - Yorkshire Post
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Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues but when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. A maiden's garland was discovered with the body, but why would a murderer take the time and trouble to bury the garland - a symbol of purity - with the victim? Pluke's research unearths that others have also died in Devil's Dump - in 1821 a shepherd name Featherstone drowned in its depths and again, in 1872 another tragedy occurred in the waters; another Featherstone, but this time the victim was a six year old girl who was later buried with a maiden's garland. And now Susan Featherstone has gone missing from the dale - and she is an agent for an artist who always depicts a shepherd in her paintings of the moors. But the artist too has gone missing, so is Susan victim - or killer?
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'Detectives, in fiction at least, come in all shapes and sizes but few make as much initial impact as Montague Pluke... The strength of the book lies in the characters, especially the eccentric Pluke and his wife, Millicent. But a rich seam of secondary characters wait in the wings... It's original, it's funny - discovering Pluke has been one of life's little pleasures.' - Yorkshire Post
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Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues but when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. A maiden's garland was discovered with the body, but why would a murderer take the time and trouble to bury the garland - a symbol of purity - with the victim? Pluke's research unearths that others have also died in Devil's Dump - in 1821 a shepherd name Featherstone drowned in its depths and again, in 1872 another tragedy occurred in the waters; another Featherstone, but this time the victim was a six year old girl who was later buried with a maiden's garland. And now Susan Featherstone has gone missing from the dale - and she is an agent for an artist who always depicts a shepherd in her paintings of the moors. But the artist too has gone missing, so is Susan victim - or killer?
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