It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant & innocent countryside but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe There are many many bodies
- & an ancient crime more terrible than murder He is out of his jurisdiction out of his depth out of bacon sandwiches occasionally snookered & out of his mind But never out of guile Where there is a crime there must be a finding there must be a chase & there must be a punishment They say that in the end all sins are forgiven But not quite all Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction