The Hanging Tree: British Detectives

By Jeremy Clarkson

Book Overview

'The original crossroads used to run by here, ' Sam told Rafferty. 'Legend has it that this was the old Hanging Tree.'

When Inspector Rafferty first hears the report that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a tree in Dedman Wood, he dismisses it as a schoolboy hoax, especially when police at the scene find nothing out of the ordinary.

But his anxiety rises sharply when the witness turns out to be a respectable local magistrate, who identifies the corpse as Maurice Smith, a man once accused of four child rapes. Thrown out on a legal technicality, Smith's case had become a cause c?l?bre which had generated much ill-feeling within the community.

Then the body turns up again in the woods. Could there be a self-appointed executioner at work, meting out his own form of justice on the legendary Hanging Tree?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014104876X
• ISBN13: 9780141048765
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"