Publisher's Synopsis
The Reverend Dodd, Vicar of St.-Michael's-on-the-Cliff, spends his evenings reading detective stories - but heaven forbid that the shadow of REAL crime should ever fall across his seaside parish! Then his peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and ill-tempered magistrate, is found with a bullet through his head. Suspicion falls on Tregarthan's niece Ruth, whose budding romance with a novelist had met with her uncle's disapproval. Yet the Reverend Dodd doubts her culpability. It's up to him to apply skills he's gleaned from mystery fiction to solving a very real crime.
