Gamekeeper's Gallows Author:John B. Hilton An historical crime mystery set in the High Peak district of Derbyshire in the 1870s. The second appearance of Detective Constable Thomas Brunt (who first appeared in Rescue from the Rose), here as a much younger man. It might be almost entitled ‘The Search for Amy Harrington’ or ‘The Case of the Missing Girls’; ... more »for when Brunt, in search of Amy, makes the long journey to the very remote hamlet of Piper’s Fold he finds that there has been something of a traffic in young girls in this tiny, enclosed community. The effective boss of the Cromford and High Peak Railway is the driver Thomas Beresford, a splendid rustic eccentric and a truly comic character. Brunt’s investigation entangles him in an extraordinary web of legend, folklore, rustic customs and secret community loyalties.« less