Death's Mannikins is a 1937 Australian novel by Max Afford.

Unlike Blood on His Hands, this one had an English setting.

[4] The novel was published in London eight weeks after Blood on his Hands.

[5] The Australasian said the book "fulfils the expectations raised by its description as "a series of macabre murders."

They are macabre enough, and being staged, in a gloomy Exmoor valley should satisfy the most avid pursuer of the thriller.