Dead Man's Quarry

The murderer was also riding a bicycle... why if we can trace it we shall have the murderer!On a cycling holiday in idyllic Herefordshire countryside Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder - for the man was shot in the head.Fortunately John Christmas last seen in The Studio Crime (1929) is on hand with his redoubtable forensic associate Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.Dead Mans Quarry is the second of Ianthe Jerrolds classic and influential whodunits originally published in 1930.