1. Where Death Delights
In 1955, pathologist Richard Pryor leaves government service and uses his severance pay to establish a private forensic consultancy with scientist Angela Bray. Their first substantial case concerns human remains found near a reservoir and claimed by two different women as missing relatives. Identification requires careful…
2. According to the Evidence
Richard Pryor and Angela Bray’s consultancy is becoming established when an apparent suicide at an isolated Welsh farm raises questions about the physical evidence. A separate request from the War Office introduces another problem in which official secrecy restricts what the investigators can reveal. The most…
3. Grounds for Appeal
Angela Bray returns to the Wye Valley laboratory while physician Priscilla Chambers remains with the consultancy and contributes her knowledge of anthropology. Their next investigation begins when a headless body with bound hands is recovered from a bog near the Welsh resort of Borth. The condition…