Mammoth, London, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-7497-4524-X.  Soft cover, 183 pages. Unread copy with light edge and cover wear, tiny corner bends; tight binding, pages tanning.  ‘Too many deaths, too many suicides.  It was more than coincidence.  The Wheatstone Pond was a killer.  When it’s drained, Jeff Morgan gets interested, hoping there’ll be a few valuable wrecks of model boats down there.  But nothing prepared him for what he was going to find.  In the black water and thick mud something is alive, waiting, hungry for new victims.  As strange things start to happen, Jeff can feel the darkness creep round him, drawing him deeper into the rotting heart of the Wheatstone Pond …’ (from rear wrap)