The Coat of Arms

<p>A series of bizarre burglaries grips the village of Sketchley beginning with the escape of a long-confined asylum patient. When silver vanishes from manor houses and then mysteriously reappears suspicion turns toward a figure glimpsed in the moonlight-a white-bearded old man said to have murdered his keeper.</p><p></p><p>Amid growing panic innkeeper John Lorney and a visiting American detective begin to unravel a sinister tale of hidden identities deception and guilt. As romantic entanglements and personal secrets threaten to derail the investigation the village faces a haunting question: Is the returned madman a menace-or a pawn in a deeper conspiracy? </p><p></p>