To Die in a Ditch

As a tramp, a Gentleman of the Road, ‘Call me Josh’ is a well-known character in West Devon. So’s his friend and fellow ‘Gentleman’, Sailor Dave.

But Dave has a secret, something he’s been scribbling on papers in his old rucksack for years. So when he’s found dead in an old WW2 pillbox, the police may say accidental death, but Josh cries murder.

PC Derek Martin is torn between the two, but then the rucksack is found slung over a fence a mile from the pillbox. Derek’s schoolteacher wife, Mary, starts to piece the story together.
But how is their new Inspector, war hero Vernon Summers, OBE, DSC, involved? Derek has to find out - the hard way...