W. J. Burley Books

Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe mystery. Recovery of stolen guns leads to a fatal shooting.

Deep in Hound of the Baskervilles country lies Washford, a village that looks as if it has grown out of the moor itself. Close by is Ashill House, home of the Beales, an odd and reclusive family. Old Simon has withdrawn from active life, Nicholas and Gertrude confine themselves to war games and the bottle, young Edward paints on the moor. Only Gertrude’s husband, Frank, has enough drive to maintain the family business. When the village lay–about is murdered, there’s no reason to connect the crime with the Beales. Until Wycliffe goes in search of skeletons…

"Each year, at Hallowe'en, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-size effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea - a re-enactment of a hideous, ancient legend where the figure had been a living sacrifice." "So when Jonathan Riddle, a well-known and respected local builder and undertaker, disappears it seems all too likely that his corpse has gone the way of the historic 'scapegoat'." "As Chief Superintendent Wycliffe begins to investigate the family life of Riddle, more and more unpleasant facts begin to emerge until eventually he is left with an incredible, and seemingly impossible, solution ..."--BOOK JACKET.

Donated.

Mord in der englischen Kleinstadt Treen! Das Opfer, Caroline Bryce, stammt aus der einflußreichsten Familie der Stadt. Kriminalinspektor Wycliff untersucht den Fall auf seine eigene, unkonventionelle Methode. Schritt für Schritt nähert er sich der überraschenden Lösung...