Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall, Paperback/Peter Maughan

Humph, a Brooklyn short-order cook who inherited the crumbling estate of Batch Hall, has married his true love and the future looks bright. But when badger baiters are discovered in Cutterbach Wood, they face the awful decision to sell up. And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus...