Going, Going, Gone

An auctioneer who cannot say "e;gone"e;. A cider farm in the full flood of harvest. And a good man missing for three days.Autumn has come to Wenhope, a black-and-white market town on the Welsh border, and three days before the Michaelmas Fine Sale the grand old lady of Ashby's auction house breaks her hip on her own rostrum steps. Hattie Pryce, Ashby's valuer, has not taken a sale since the London...