Following on from Allison & Busby's extremely popular Nighthawk series of Jim Kelly crime novels set in Cambridge during World War II. For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Government for military training. In its thousand-year-old history, it had been famous for one thing, never having recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise in the empty village, its spotless history is literally blown apart. For the Territorial Army's shells reveal a hidden cellar beneath the old pub. And inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck .