Death Comes to Perigord

<p>Young Dr. Dunn is acting as <em>locum</em> for Dr. Wright whose practice is on Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Dr. Dunn finds much of interest in the mix of French and English influences on the island but nothing unusual about his work until a strange old man that he has visited goes missing then turns up dead. Certain peculiarities spark doubts in the doctor’s mind about the man’s death while strange circumstances continue to arise and island blackguards threaten from the shadows. Finally Dr. Dunn reaches out to a friend Detective Francis McNab to join him on the island in hopes of examining the accumulating evidence and figuring out just what is going on . . .</p>