As soon as he returned home, Jake checked out the Exmoor area and alarmed himself by finding that it covered 430 square miles of land which, in turn, were divided into nine profiles of landscape according to the National Park Landscape Character Assessment—and he had to locate a phantom panther in all of that! Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack!
First of all, he needed to find accommodation in the Shebbear area, which proved very easy because the village boasted an inn with eight letting bedrooms. So, he booked a double room in the Devil’s Stone Inn. Hadn’t Sir Clive said that the place was famous for its stone? Whilst he was on the Internet, he thought he might as well find out about the rock since it lent its name to the place where they’d be staying. The boulder in question
