The Skeleton Man: A Philip Dryden Mystery

For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Judes Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence for-military training in 1990.- The isolated, 1,000-year-old community was-famous for one thing - never having recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise in the empty village, its spotless history is literally blown apart. For the TAs shells expose-a hidden cellar beneath the old pub.- And inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck . . . Two days later, a man is pulled from the reeds in the river near Ely - he has no idea who he is or how he got there.- But he knows the words Judes Ferry are important - and he knows he is afraid . . .