Barnaby Rudge - Author Charles Dickens

On the wind-swept evening of the 19th March 1775, one of the regulars of the Maypole Inn, Chigwell Essex, tells the story of how on that night exactly 23 years previously, the Catholic Reuben Haredale and his servant Barnably Rudge, were killed in a double murder.

If ever the mystery of the murderss is to be solved, he claims, it will be on its anniversary....