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Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat / Wycliffe and the Four Jacks
Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat / Wycliffe and the Four Jacks Author:W. J. Burley Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat - The girl was slim and young, with auburn hair splayed out on the pillow. Wycliffe almost believed her asleep rather than dead - until he saw her face. Although death was by strangulation, someone had smashed her face in after she was dead. She lay in a sordid room in a seedy hotel down by th... more »e docks, but her luggage, her clothes, and her make-up all indicated she was more expensive and classier than her surroundings.
Superintendent Wycliffe was officially on holiday, but the case fascinated him and he had to find out who she was, why she was lying naked in a shabby hotel room, why she had a thousand pounds hidden under some clothing, and above all, why had she been 'murdered' twice.
As he began to investigate, he found there was too much of everything about the case - too many suspects, too many motives, and too many lies.
Wycliffe and the Four Jacks - Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in 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 Jack 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 drawn into 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.« less