The Diabolical Club

Strange things are going on in Black Dog Wood, near the village of Nasely. There are rumours that it¿s become a popular dogging spot, and there have been alleged sightings of a werewolf-like monster.

And then someone discovers a blindfolded skeleton, bizarrely buried standing up.

When the secretary of a prestigious girl¿s boarding school is found murdered, all of the evidence points to the local MP. His only chance to avoid prosecution for a crime that he claims he didn¿t commit is to hire ex-homicide detective Frank Shunter.

Meanwhile, the identity of the blindfolded skeleton may reveal a startling truth about the fate of murder-mystery writer Agnes Crabbe¿s long lost novel, Wallowing in the Mire...