Luckless Lady — George Douglas

An art robbery at a London gallery and the disappearance of a resident of a small West Yorkshire village seem, on the face of it, to have nothing in common. For nobody in Thornley liked Mrs Mellor - few of them had escaped her domineering manner, her quarrelsome tongue. When she goes missing the general opinion is that she has literally gone back to the devil. Then, Police Constable Adrian Hill finds her body in a discused well and the case turns to one of murder...