THIS NEWLY RE-ISSUED TITLE IN WITTING'S CLASSIC DETECTIVE CHARLTON SERIES CONCERNS A STOLEN ARTIFACT AND A DEADLY CRIMINAL UNDERWORLDWork was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done without Mr Otto Bajornsen. Yet had not this untidy, smiling man come on his fact-finding trip to Downshire, the affair of the Busy Bees might have had a very different conclusion. Even as he sat talking in Charlton's office in Lulverton, the wheels were being set in motion and Mr Theophilus Mildwater, curator of the Monk Jewel Museum, was anxiously reporting the loss of Exhibit 115, a valuable - and dangerous - tomahawk.
