That’s a symptom of thallium poisoning, and it turns out that all the supernatural intrigue was just a cover for regular-old murder by poison.

That is, until Mark realizes that all the victims suffered hair loss. After he attends a suitably spooky séance at the Pale Horse, Ginger does fall ill-and it seems like all the witchery may actually be working. Mark and his friend Ginger decide to see how the murderous scheme works by placing a bet with Bradley on whether or not Ginger will survive the month. Soon enough, the client loses that bet, and with the target dead, it’s time to pay up. Then, the client heads to the Pale Horse, where the witches work their juju. Bradley bets the intended target will die, while the client bets that they’ll live. The person who’d like to order a hit visits Bradley, who then makes a wager with his newfound client. This leads him to the operation’s lawyer, Mr. To find out how the murder plot works, Mark decides to go undercover as a Pale Horse client.

Its current occupants are a self-reported psychic medium named Sybil Stamfordis, occultist Thyrza Grey, and their housekeeper, reumored local witch Bella Webb. Mark decides to embark on an investigation of his own, and traces the deaths back to a small town called Much Deeping and a historic former inn and pub called the Pale Horse. As in the series, almost everyone on the list is found to be dead, though all the deaths have been ruled to be of natural causes. Instead, he’s introduced to the story by police surgeon Jim Corrigan, who’s aiding Detective Inspector Lejeune in solving the murder of a priest who was discovered to be carrying a list of names. In the book, Mark Easterbrook is a single man, and he’s not on the list of names. The original story is different in almost every way possible-and if you haven’t read it or watched the series yet, here’s fair warning that all the twists will be spoiled blow.

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