sentences:  Wycliffe's investigation, meanwhile, proves almost as bizarre as the crime itself, with baffling new evidence arriving by the bucket load, and the eventual discovery of a solution stranger than anything he's ever encountered before.The small community of Paul's Court is shattered by the violent deaths of Willy Goppel, a German doll house maker found hanging from a beam in his home, and Yvette Cole, a fifteen-year-old with a wild reputation, found strangled, half-naked and thrown callously over a churchyard hedge.With the help of a local detective, Wycliffe uncovers a dark string of anatgonisms weaving across Paul's court.