"When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her death bed not even an hour before? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who live at the Pale Horse, and who are rumoured to practise the 'Dark Arts', can provide some answers?"
"Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her - and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he finished reading it - stabbed through the neck where he sat in his study..."
