Dusty Death

Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying uninhabitable terraced houses of the old cotton town finally demolished - until the clearance reveals a grisly secret. As the bulldozers level the site a decaying arm appears among the debris raised aloft to the heavens as if beseeching justice. The corpse is a woman who lived out the last months of her life as a squatter in one of the derelict houses. Chief Inspector Peach traces those who had shared the squat with her but it's going to be no easy task to build up an understanding of their shady world.