An historical murder mystery set in the 1820's.When C. H. Underwood arrives in the village of Bracken Tor in the spring of 1820, he intends only to visit his brother, the vicar, and take a long rest from his work as a Classics tutor at Cambridge University.However, almost as soon as he arrives he finds himself intrigued by an unsolved murder, committed the year before.The headless corpse of a young woman was found in woods belonging to the local landowner...