Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Crosbie, the lead for the Major Investigation Team, was fronting it up, but she wouldn't have expected anything else. A highprofile case always suits the suits.

She tried to get the case open. . . . I wish Father was here, said Phyllis; he'd get it open in two shakes.

Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

Off we go in to the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun...