Not In The Flesh

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The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man & his dog unearth something slightly less savoury
- a human h&. The corpse, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a violet cotton sheet. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue to solving this mysterious murder is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Wexford knows it will be a difficult job to identify the dead body. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. People disappear at an alarming rate
- hundreds each day. & then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found. The detection skills of Wexford, Burden & the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected & to track down whoever is responsible.