内容简介：
The three short novels in this trio comprise the story of John Penny Thurlow, better known as The Duster. His partner in crime has long been Hector Mannes. But it has been reported that Mannes was mortally wounded in a bank raid. The Duster insists he wants nothing more now than to go straight. There is only one last thing he is yet to do. He wants to bury Hector Mannes in Christmas cemetery. This was his partner's dying wish, and he promised him that it would be done. The Reverend Kenneth Lamont refuses to allow the burial. Mannes's presence would cast a bad reflection on the upstanding members of the community who have been buried there. What may decisively turn the tables is a crime in which The Duster could not be implicated, but one that would compromise the minister.