Was Mrs. Sibley, the fat, elderly lady found dead tangled up with a broomstick on the East Anglian marshes, really a witch? The small Norfolk town was agog with the mystery, but Inspector Lovick was not convinced that witch-like flying had caused her death. There was a bruise on her head indicating her body could have been thrown out of a helicopter ...
He and nice Miss Purdy, Mrs. Sibley's landlady who had nothing but trouble since the sinister woman had rented the top of her house, joined forces to discover the mystery and found they were dealing with an evil infinitely more terrifying than conventional witchcraft.