When a girl is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from "Hamlet". If Detective-Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is furious when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.
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