Ginger finds out that a man named Bradley will get her closer to the mysterious events associated with the Pale Horse. Ginger meets with Poppy and presses her for more information, while Mark determines to interview the mother of the girl who had died from the café. Ginger proves to be enthusiastic and resourceful, and the pair hatch a plan to discover more information. Mark, for his part, forms an alliance with a woman named Ginger whom he met at a Church festival days before. Osborne, the pharmacist, could not have been the priest’s murderer since the man had been identified and was found to be bound to a wheelchair and thus could not have been seen walking past the store window. Meanwhile, Inspector Lejeune discovers that the suspect witnessed by Mr. Believing there is a connection between the recent deaths and the strange residents of the Pale Horse, Mark decides to investigate, a fact that he shares with the wife of the local vicar, Mrs. Then, while visiting a pub after his stop at the Pale Horse, Mark comes across a visitor’s book that contains names he recognizes: names that appeared on the list carried by the deceased priest days earlier. In meeting Thyrza and the other women, Mark becomes even more intrigued. Venables, and then visit the Pale Horse as a local tourist attraction. One afternoon Mark, Rhoda, and a small group of friends have lunch at the home of a wealthy collector, Mr. She tells him that three women, Thyrza Grey, Sybil Stanfordis, and Bella (their cook) live in the old inn and are infamous for their participation in magic, witchcraft, and spiritualism. Mark’s cousin Rhoda, however, does have information about the Pale Horse. The next day when Mark visits Poppy’s place of employment, she refuses to speak about the topic, visibly afraid even to mention the Pale Horse. Poppy mentions an establishment in a nearby village called the Pale Horse that seems to dabble in the subject, but she won’t say more. The foursome discuss the existence and power of witches, inspired by the witches in the play they had just seen. After the performance, they go to dinner and run into friends David and Poppy. Mark Easterbrook, meanwhile, attends a performance of Macbeth with his date Hermia Redcliffe. Detective-Inspector Lejeune investigates the cases.

Osborne, who was closing his shop when the crime happened.

One woman died in the presence of the priest that very evening, and the only witness to the murder is a pharmacist, Mr. During the same period, a local priest is murdered and found with a list of names, all of whom, the reader soon discovers, are dead. A week later, Mark sees the death notice of the young woman who’d been depilated in the morning obituaries. Mark Easterbrook, a local historian, is sitting in a café when two young women begin fighting, and one of them tears a handful of hair out of the other’s scalp.

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