This is an historical crime mystery set in the High Peak district of Derbyshire in the 1870s. The police detective, Thomas Brunt, who first appeared in Rescue from the Rose, appears here too, but as a much younger man. It might be almost entitled 'The Search for Amy Harrington' or 'The Case of the Missing Girls'; for when Brunt, in search of Amy, makes the long journey to the very remote hamlet of展开