A Death Knell for a Wedding Bell

His vengeance sated, but dispossessed of both wealth and title, Little Crick is hungry to make a return to the world of the aristocracy – yet he’ll need all his ingenuity to do it. Alerted to a potentially untapped source of wealth, he recruits some old friends – and some new ones – to lead an offensive against the seaside town of Mayforte. There, with the help of a little animal magnetism, he hopes to reassert his dominance. But what spectres of the dead await him upon the shores of that ill-famed bastion? And – perhaps more importantly – what living spirits remain in residence, bearing their own axes to grind? A death knell is tolling. But do not ask for whom the bell chimes, Little Crick, for this time, it chimes for thee….

Preceded by A Sickle for my Sweetheart and A Hatchet for my Dame.