The Beckoning Lady Author:Margery Allingham For eight days aa body lies in the ditch by a plank bridge. Until the dog, no one passing bothers to look down - except the one person who knows it is there. — Albert Campion arrives in Pontisbright to find the village in mourning. Uncle William Faraday has died aged eighty-two, but, as the old man would have wished, preparations for Tonker's m... more »idsummer extravaganza are in full swing. Even as a murder inquiry begins, a scandal threatens and Old Harry predicts death in threes, the excitement crescendoes. It is up to Mr. Campion, the most urbane of detectives, to ensure that nothing can stop the party.« less