`A blood-splattered figure in a white dress was rising from the tree stump, tendrils knotted round it like the tangled strings of a marionette, its shiny bald head bobbing on its broken neck. . . . staring transfixed at this lurid apparition dangling before them, the audience began to scream . . .' Terror stalks the South Coast in this stylish whodunnit. Without reason, corpses appear in the middle of the Devonshire Park pantomime, on the South Downs and at a freezing Polegate Station. What lies behind these brutal killings? Inspector Plover sets out to uncover Eastbourne's dark secret.