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An idyllic setting A violent death

If it hadnt been for the circumstances Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding Up high overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant Clare Yarwood there was a body and it wasnt a pleasant sight

What happened Tremayne asked He was a cantankerous man he knew that and he wasnt in a good mood on account of the biting wind and the squelching mud underfoot

I found him when I came up here to check on the livestock the farmhand said

At what time Tremayne moved away from the body attempting to find somewhere drier The condition of the track up to the site was so bad that the vehicle sent to transport the dead man to the mortuary could not make it up Even Tremayne and Clare had had to hang onto a tractor to get up the slope and now the weather looked as if it were about to worsen

Tremayne had never been keen on farms and especially horses although Clare loved them Tremayne assumed she wouldnt be so fond of the one that trampled Claude Selwood to death