The Six Iron Spiders

Its WWII and Asey Mayo has returned home on a three day holiday from the Porter machine tank factory. The Village is all abustle with First-Aid classes, civil response drills and practices, Red Cross activities, war restrictions, some displaced out-of-towners.and local home grown eccentricities. Within an hour of his arrival, Asey discovers a dead body in the buttery of his cottage. Asey calls his friend the local doctor, and the invesigation begins, Dr. Cunninton and Asey have initially identified an "iron spider" as the murder weapon, but it turns out there are 6 such spiders floating about the village. Then, a second murder victim is found. It is written in a dialectical language style, and very much reflects the close inner twining of small village lives. Interesting period piece.