Title: 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
Places: England, Bath, Bath (England)
People: Peter Diamond (Fictitious character)