Murder in the moor

Detective Inspector Peregrine Smith is on a summer walking holiday on Dukesmoor, Devon when he meets fellow hiker, Angus MacFee. They strike up an acquaintance and decide to travel together the next day. In the thick, early morning fog they start off navigating across the desolate, boggy moor towards their first way point, Okemere Pool, the wildest and loneliest part of Dukesmoor. Whilst they traverse such landmarks as Flagstaff Hill and Grim’s Circle, a prehistoric stone circle, a gruesome murder is committed. Two young women find a man with a fatal head wound on the bank of Okemere Pool, a bloodstained three-pounder cannon shell lying nearby. The corpse is dressed only in underclothes, his boots, trousers and hat are all missing…