After Ursula Tusser is hanged for witchcraft, in an Essex town of Elizabethan England, Constable Matthew Stock, aided by his wife, Joan, tries to convince the frightened townspeople that the young woman's ghost is not haunting the town...
In sixteenth-century London, someone is killing the law students of Temple Bar, and Constable Matthew Stock is called in to investigate, along with his wife Joan, who pursues a nontraditional avenue of inquiry...