the sinful stones Author:peter dickinson superintendent pibble takes a policeman's holiday to a hebridian isle where the winds howl, the gulls scream and wheel, mad monks are bulding a granite monestary with topless towers, and britian's most famous and vicious-tempered scientist seems to be held prisoner and in considerable danger of being bumped off. — pibble's job-fascinating twist!-... more »is secondarily to rescue the eccentric old man, primarily to wrest from him how he diddled pibble's father out of a fortune...how the super brings off his double event, with the help of two whores(one drunk, one daft) and a kid's kite, is what this racing adventure story, spiced with genuine detection and told with rare wit is about.« less