The stone wife

Description:

At a bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind.

subjects: Police,  Fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Crime, fiction,  Diamond, peter (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural

People: Peter Diamond (Fictitious character)

Places: England,  Bath,  Bath (England)