About the book: 2007 / Anonymous letters, rumors, gossip. What else could disturb the calm life of the English village of Stoke Druid, where everyone knows each other? Maybe a fantastic stone statue - the Mocking Widow - that has been standing on the outskirts of the village for hundreds of years. After all, the letters keep coming. And there is a signature on them, as a sign of approaching death - Widow! The great Henry Merrivale, who found himself in Stoke Druid almost by accident, cannot refuse to help those in need..