Wycliffe and the Pea Green Boat

by W.J. Burley

Overview

Wycliffe tackles a case which reaches back down the generations ...

When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. But the case against him is strong: he has the motive, the opportunity and the know-how; not to mention the fact that there is some hard circumstantial evidence against him. So Cedric is arrested.

But Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a strong sense that something about the case just doesn't fit. As he quietly continues his investigations a confusing picture emerges. Twenty years ago Cedric's cousin was convicted of strangling his girlfriend and served fourteen years of a commuted death sentence.

While the wheels of justice begin to grind Wycliffe searches for a link between past and present '

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780752881867
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication date:	04/28/2008
Series:	Wycliffe Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	4.37(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

W.J. Burley lived near Newquay in Cornwall, and was a schoolmaster until he retired to concentrate on his writing. His many Wycliffe novels were extremely popular and were adapted for a highly successful TV series starring Jack Shepherd. W.J. Burley died in 2002.

Editorial Reviews

"Whenever a character comes back as many times a 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

"You can always count on Wycliffe . . . he inevitably guarantees a good story, convincing characters, and appealing landscape."  —Financial Times

"First-class, old-time, hyper-ingenious whodunit."  —Observer

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