The Skeleton Man

For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence for military training in 1990.  The isolated, thousand-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 TA's shells reveal a hidden cellar beneath the old pub.  And inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck...