Skelton's Guide to Blazing Corpses

It is November 5th Guy Fawkes Night 1930. Bonfires are blazing rockets burst. In a country lane revellers discover a car that has been set on fire. At first they assume that this is the work of vandals taking the Guy Fawkes spirit a little too far then they notice sitting at the wheel a body charred beyond recognition. The initial assumption is that the owner of the car Mr William Hodge a successful travelling vacuum cleaner salesman has taken his own life by flooding the car with petrol and lighting a match. The post-mortem however reveals that Mr Hodge was either unconscious or dead before the fire was lit. When Tommy Blamire a local criminal is charged with the murder barrister Arthur Skelton believes him to be innocent so sets out to prove as much and ensure justice is served.