- Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery
Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery (1993) is a
crime novel by Cornishwriter W. J. Burley . [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-39997/Wycliffe-and-the-Dunes-Mystery.htm]ynopsis
Fifteen years ago, Cochran Wilder supposedly vanished during a
walking holiday in Cornwall, and has now just been released from apsychiatric hospital , where he was incarcerated after successfully pleading insanity for anindecent assault charge. His father, a prominentMP , regards his son as a horrible embarrassment, and is in for more professional strife when Cochran's murdered body is found buried deep inside a sand dune.Wycliffe suspects one (or possibly even all) of six figureheads in the local community, who had been spending an illicit weekend at a Chalet near the scene of Cohran's grisly end. When a series of threatening communications begin circulating and a second murder is committed, the sleuth finds himself caught up in a deadly race against time...
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