Toad in the Hole (AG Barnett's Mystery Singles Book 6)

It is spring in 1950s Woodstock. Reg Slade, the moneylender half the town called the Toad, is found face down in an allotment trench beside the police station. Someone hit him with a spade. The spade belongs to Frank Hooper, who told the whole pub a week ago that he would bury Slade in his own allotment.

Gertie Bundle hears it all over the bar of The Old Pyed Bull. Hester Croft says very little. That is how Gertie knows she is interested.