Wycliffe and the School Bullies

Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse, but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on the loose, but Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex than that.

As Wycliffe searches for a link between the victims his investigations take him back in time; to a school trip, an isolated hostel and a cruel joke on a lonely student. Wycliffe is forced into a race against time to track down the murderer before they strike again.

“"Whenever a character comes back as many times as Chief Superintendent Wycliffe, a reviewer is faced with a dilemma: What can you say that you haven't already said? We called attention to Burley's solid plotting, well-described and colorful settings, and intriguing characters . . . Finally, we have no choice but to repeat ourselves by emphasizing one more time how pleasurable the familiar conventions of the genre can be in the hands of a writer as good as Burley."”

Whenever a character comes back as many times as Chief Superintendent Wycliffe, a reviewer is faced with a dilemma: What can you say that you haven't already said? We called attention to Burley's solid plotting, well-described and colorful settings, and intriguing characters . . . Finally, we have no choice but to repeat ourselves by emphasizing one more time how pleasurable the familiar conventions of the genre can be in the hands of a writer as good as Burley. "Booklist""
--"Booklist"

W.J Burley lived near Newquay in Cornwall and was a schoolmaster until he retired to concentrate on his writing. He died in 2002.

Previous titles include:

Wycliffe And The Guild Of Nine

Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death

Wycliffe and the Tangled Web

Wycliffe and the Last Rites

Wycliffe in Paul's Court

Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street

Wycliffe and the Four Jacks

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

Wycliffe and the Beales

Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue

Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase

Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist

Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place

Wycliffe and How to Kill A Cat

Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi

Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy

Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse, but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on the loose, but Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex than that.As Wycliffe searches for a link between the victims his investigations take him back in time; to a school trip, an isolated hostel and a cruel joke on a lonely student. Wycliffe is forced into a race against time to track down the murderer before they strike again.

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