A Secondhand Tomb Author:R.J. White Professor Peck was guiding his busload up the hillside, with some difficulty. Miss Jewkes and Miss Dawes had a tendency to lag behind. His group was an oddly assorted one -a canoness, Mother St. Thomas More, and Father Dominic, Mr Leaf from Dorset (a quiet fellow), the professor's wife (much less quiet), some Germans, and a young couple more int... more »erested in each other than in the old moats and ruined churches the professor's tour had been lecturing to them about.The highlight of the tour taht day was to be the Thimblerig Tomb, which features an old stone box in the chancel, with the shrunken statue of a dead man stretched out on its lid. However, a new highlight turned up when one menber of the party suddenly disappeared. She'd been wearking a scarlet dress; her name was Iris Armstrong; she was lovely and she was third in command of Historical House Parties, Ltd., which was headed by the professor and his wife. When she was finally found, she was found dead -murdered. Some people felt that Thimblerig Tomb, which had its past mysteries, had something to do with the present day murder. And some people -especially one person -thought the answer lay somewhere else.« less