Search -
Second Wycliffe Omnibus: Wycliffe and the Last Rites / Wycliffe and the School Girls / Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, Bks 7 & 17 & 18)
Second Wycliffe Omnibus Wycliffe and the Last Rites / Wycliffe and the School Girls / Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist - Wycliffe, Bks 7 & 17 & 18 Author:W. J. Burley Wycliffe and the Last Rites -- A bizarre murder shakes the Cornish village of Moresk. Arriving at church on Easter morning, the vicar discovers the body of a woman sprawled across the chancel steps. Has the church been desecrated by a Satanist ritual? Chief Superintendent Wycliffe sees the crime more as an expression of hatred d... more »irected at others in the community, besides the dead woman.
His investigation, however, is frustrated at every turn, and when another horrific murder is committed, Wycliffe thinks he knows who the killer is. But can he prove it?
Wycliffe and the School Girls -- Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a nightclub singer, the other a nurse, but both were strangled in their own homes in strangely efficient, remarkably similar attacks. The press is quick to assume there's a psychopath on the loose, but Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex. When another attack is aborted for no apparent reason, Wycliffe is certain that this is no random spate of murders. But with his superiors and the media uninterested in his theories, Wycliffe knows he will have to work alone to find the killer. As he searches for a link between the victims, his investigations take him back in timeto a school trip, an isolated hostel, and a cruel joke on a lonely student.
Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist -- On the peaceful and secluded estate of Lord and Lady Bottrel, the body of amateur flautist Tony Mills has been found, shot by his own gun. It appears to be suicideÂbut a closer inspection reveals some sinister inconsistencies, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is called in to investigate. As Wycliffe begins to unravel the last days of the dead man, another mystery is revealed: the disappearance of Lizzie Biddick, a pretty young girl who worked for the Bottrell family as a maid. Gradually, bitter family feuds and illicit relationships are uncovered and then another body shatters the pastoral serenity of the Cornish estate for ever...« less