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At Calladale Women's Agricultural College, a harmless prank spirals into tragedy when a hidden body is found in a horse carriage beside a local pub. The victim was killed by the root of spotted hemlock, yet the coroner notes the deceased is older than the missing student, Norah Palliser. With Palliser's disappearance and a string of petty thefts, Dame Beatrice Lestrange, a renowned magistrate and amateur sleuth, is called in by her nephew, Carey Lestrange, to uncover the truth. As she traces clues across Northern Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, and southern Italy, she confronts secrets of clandestine marriages, questionable master‑students, and a spectral horseman haunting the campus grounds.
First publish date: 1960
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Gladys Mitchell
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