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When recently exhumed church relics are stolen from a small English village the theft is quickly followed by four murders.
The joint inheritance of a piece of property supplies a motive but the cause of death is mystery. Cue Sir Clinton Driffield, who investigates and makes an on-the-spot arrest of the culprits and their super-scientific death machine.
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