This latest collection by Hugh Greene of early twentieth-century crime stories, all set in the English countryside, completes the trio of volumes that began with The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Cosmopolitan Crimes.

On foot, by bicycle, or with the compliments of the British railways, the ingenious sleuths of this collection roam the hedgerows and large country houses, the inns and the remote dark corners of the English counties to track down the nefarious deeds of a most entertaining and colorful group of criminals.