This was originally published back in 1985, and is the third in the series. Having an anthropologist solve cases and come up with Sherlock Holmes style deductions based on bone fragments is an original idea, and the sort of thing that seems set for a lot of mileage. To date, Gideon has got his teeth into quite a variety of cases including a Cold War spy story and a more bizarre and effective story involving a rain forest and a lost tribe. Now he is in England with all that entails - unfortunately what it does entail are some patronizing remarks about the country and some unnecessarily aired views. Lyme Regis for example is "vaguely unsatisfying" and the views are "tame". This is, in my opinion, not a book for Brits. The plot is unusual, but could do with fleshing out a bit and being less linear. This is a thin book, but there is not enough in it to avoid a sag in the middle when nothing new is introduced and old ground gone over and over. If you loved these books when they were fresh, new and different back in the 1980s then surely this reprint is great nostalgia, but I wondered why this rather dated series has been reissued as frankly it hasn't stood the test of time very well.