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The Wycliffe Omnibus: Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue / Wycliffe and the Four Jacks / Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin
The Wycliffe Omnibus Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue / Wycliffe and the Four Jacks / Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin Author:W. J. Burley Wycliffe and the Four Jacks BK 12 — Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live -- an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of Cornwall. — But beneath the successful facade was a private nightmare. For at regular intervals a sinister and mysterious warning was delivered to him: a single playing card, the J... more »ack of Diamonds. Then, one day, the card arrived torn in half -- and that night a murder was committed.
Chief Superintendent Wycliffe was on holiday in the area but, far from relaxing, he finds himself drawninto the investigation. Before long there is more than just a single mystery to solve. As Wycliffe investigates, he uncovers a double murder, arson, and a whole series of crimes stretching back over many years ...
Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin Bk 13
Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is not looking forward to Christmas. With his wife away in Kenya he rashly accepts an invitation from Penzance lawyer Ernest Bishop to spend a few days at the Bishops' cliff-top home. When Wycliffe arrives the weather is bleak, the house remote, and the welcome from the family no more than polite.
Then a young girl goes missing after playing the part of the Virgin in the local nativity play. The girl was withdrawn, difficult and unpopular in the neighborhood, and even her parents seem strangely unsurprised by their daughter's disappearance.
It is left to Wycliffe to initiate a search -- but what begins as a missing person case soon turns into a major criminal investigation ...
Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue Bk 14
When Edwin Garland died of a heart attack, no one but his relatives were concerned. But on the evening of his funeral, his son is shot dead. The disappearance of another relative and a further death, unravel the mystery that began several years before with the death of a famous Cornish artist.« less