This is another fast-moving storyline by the same author of 'Orphans Are Forever, ' that continues to evoke the emotions of those living in and around the quintessential village of Langdon in the summer of (84) with its gripping twists and turns which, take place behind closed doors. That continued to challenge Inspector Watts wisdom to the limit, especially when a little red door suddenly appeared from out of nowhere and opened a whole new can of worms of deceit and deception for him, and his team to deal with.
Particularly when Professor Turner sat scanning the night-sky through the telescope at the Astrological Centre, when a bright light suddenly filled the eye-piece lens as it sped across the universe and nearly fell off his swivel chair as he tried in vain to re-focus the lens as it entered the earth's orbit.
But come the following morning; having driven his Combined Harvester into one of his Wheatfield's Billy Grimshaw couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a naked body sprawled out in the middle of a crop-circle holding onto a battered in suitcase.
Only added to the enigma of trying to solve who the Candlestick-man was?