The Harvest Murder. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9782385748555

The Harvest Murder. E-book. Formato EPUB. Under ordinary circumstances Sergeant Wragge would have greatly resented being disturbed at the untimely hour of nine o’clock on Sunday morning. But past experience had taught him that hop picking time was altogether exceptional. Almost anything might be expected to happen while it continued. And on this particular morning, September first, hop picking had been in progress for about a week. The effect of the hop picking season upon a little place like Culverden must be emphasized at the outset. For a period of three or four weeks every year the normal quietude of the countryside is completely shattered. An influx of townsfolk, far outnumbering the regular inhabitants, descends upon it.