Last ditch

Young Ricky Alleyn had come to the island to try to write, but village life was tedious - until he saw the stable-hand in the ditch.

Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump. It might have ended there had Ricky not noticed some strange and puzzling things.

But Ricky's father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, had been discreetly summoned to the scene, and when Ricky disappeared, it was the last straw...