It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a vacation would barely experienced time for you to open his suitcase before he sees his initial corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes from the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him only body in the wardrobe. There are various, many systems and a historical crime more awful than murder.

He’s out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there’s a crime there has to be a getting, there has to be a run after and there must be a punishment.

They state that in the long run all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all…