When Detective Sergeant Cluff, on the lookout as ever, overhears a conversation in Gunnershaw concerning the Amblers' estate in Egilsby, he grows suspicious. But when Colonel Ambler is found dead at the riverside, Cluff - unorthodox as ever - promptly embarks on a fishing trip to investigate, much to the despair of Inspector Mole.
Events begin to spiral: the rector's corpse is discovered in his bathtub; and Sims, a penniless adolescent, who has somehow bought himself a motorbike, has apparently killed himself on it within twenty-four hours.
True to form, Cluff has his own opinions about the deadly events unfolding, but, in his pursuit of justice, he gets much more than he bargained for.

I do like these tales of the adventures of Sergeant Cluff and often wish I could have seen the tv programmes. The brooding atmosphere and the wonderful sceney would be brilliant I'm sure.

This is going in the UK short fiction bookbox.

Taken from the short fiction bookbox for a future hand bag read - this will be my second Cluff novel.