‘A blood-splattered figure in a white dress was rising from the tree stump, tendrils knotted round it like the tangled strings of a marionette, its shiny bald head bobbing on its broken neck.
What lies behind these brutal killings? Inspector Plover sets out to uncover Eastbourne’s dark secret..
Without reason, corpses appear in the middle of the Devonshire Park pantomime, on the South Downs and at a freezing Polegate Station. .’Terror stalks the South Coast in this stylish whodunnit. . staring transfixed at this lurid apparition dangling before them, the audience began to scream . . . . ‘A blood-splattered figure in a white dress was rising from the tree stump, tendrils knotted round it like the tangled strings of a marionette, its shiny bald head bobbing on its broken neck