Southern England. August 1936. An artefact from the dark ages – a wolf carved in jet black – is stolen from the archaeology department of St Matthew's College. A man is murdered in an antique store.<br /> <br />Historian George Haye translates two eighth-century documents for the investigating police, and is very soon nearly murdered himself. What is it about the documents? Aren't they just letters from one Englishman to another? And why does the wolf from St Matthew's...
