Graveyard Murders

In this eerie entry in the Miss Tayke Investigates crime fiction series, the doyen among women encounters fiendish homicide in a cemetery…

A schoolgirl takes a shortcut through the church graveyard on her way home and is startled by the sudden appearance of an old man in black carrying a walking stick. The following evening the vicar sees the same old man standing beside a tombstone which this time has a dead body spread-eagled across it. The verger has a similar experience the next night but the mayhem does not end there. Five more corpses are discovered in the graveyard; all of them the subject of brutal stabbings. The Chief Constable accompanied by senior officers from New Scotland Yard arrives on the scene to take over the investigation from the local CID. Miss Tayke is summoned to help and astonishes the police with her theory on the murders. Assisted by Cedric and Bunty and using her uncanny skills as an eminent private investigator, she sets about tracking down the megalomaniac killer before he strikes again...