WYCLIFFE AND THE HOUSE OF FEAR.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with some minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Couple of closed tears/nicks to head of spine/backstrip,and some scoring/indents to rear panel of dw/dj.Described hard but fairly and honestly.Top edges lightly dust-soiled and minimally aged/toned,fore-edges also lightly aged/toned; contents generally bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,8-192pp [paginated] includes a prologue,12 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication.
William John Burley (b. 1st August,1914 – d. 15th November,2002) was a British crime writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Charles Wycliffe,which became the basis of the popular television series Wycliffe,shown from 1994 to 1998.Burley was born in Falmouth, Cornwall.
He began with books about an amateur detective before deciding to concentrate on the investigations of a professional policeman - Wycliffe - who had made his bow in 'Three-Toed Pussy' (1968) moved on to centre stage in 'To Kill a Cat' (1970).
The recent TV showings of six of Chief Superintendent Wycliffe's most baffling cases attracted audiences of more than ten million a week,and created a huge new audience hungry for more.Now Wycliffe returns with another intriguing mystery.
The Kemps,a Cornish Catholic family,have hung onto Kellycoryk,their ancestral home,for almost five hundred years,but it is beginning to look as though the present century will be their last.Roger,head of the shrinking clan,is desperate to stave off the inevitable.His second marriage,this time to Bridget,a prosperous business-woman with her own ideas for the radical development of the estate,offers a possible way out.But it will be painful.
Then Bridget disappears,and inevitably the local tongues start to wag.Didn't Julia,Roger's first wife (herself moderately well-heeled), disappear overboard during a sailing trip? What is Roger up to?
Wycliffe is supposed to be spending a week in a nearby cottage, recuperating from illness in the company of his wife,but there is too much that is intriguing about the Kemps for him to ignore.
W.J. Burley navigates Wycliffe through a tale with as many twists and turns as a Cornish lane to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion.His many fans,old and new,will be delighted.
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