The Chalk Pit: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 9

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Around this time, he was also active in the Millions Club, an organisation that promoted immigration to New South Wales. Club business took him to Perth in early 1921, where he became infatuated with a married woman named Maggie Brook.

On 30 November 1946 in Surrey, England, a man named Walter Coombs was walking home from work when he glimpsed a bundle of rags in an abandoned chalk pit. Jesus Christ!' Nelson explodes. 'There's a bloke dead on the front steps and none of you have noticed. 'Clough turns, his mouth open. 'Aftershave Eddie? But he's asleep.'Head east along the High Street, passing several refreshment places. At the far end skirt around the village pond and take a footpath going up to the church. Head east through the churchyard and continue on an enclosed path to the station car park.

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich.Chalk cliffs on the Cote d’Albatre, or Alabaster Coast, near Etretat in France. Photograph: Prochasson Frederic/Alamy In 1993, Richard Selley, then a professor at Imperial College London, had been thinking about the similarities between the chalk landscape of the North Downs and the Champagne region in north-east France. His neighbour had been unsuccessfully trying to farm sheep and pigs on his estate in the North Downs. Selley suggested he try sparkling wine. That vineyard now produces close to 1m bottles of wine a year, about half of it sparkling – which would, if made in north-eastern France, be called champagne. The resolution of the mysteries seems, if that is possible, to be getting more far-fetched as the series progresses and this one seems particularly bizarre (as well as solved by Ruth/the police with very limited logic). The Shoreham Cross was cut into the chalk hillside above the village in 1920, to commemorate those who lost their lives in World War Ⅰ.