
The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806
- shot & beaten to death his body set on fire & left smouldering in his own glebe field
- gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country. It was a strange & stubborn case. The investigation lasted twenty-four years & involved inquests judges & coroners each more determined than the last to solve Oddingley's most gruesome crime
- or crimes as it turned out. With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy Damn His Blood is a nail-biting true story of brutality greed & ruthlessness which brings an elusive society vividly back to life.