Wycliffe and the redhead - Hardcover

Burley, W. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575064706 ISBN 13: 9780575064706

Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1997

Synopsis

Wycliffe and the Redhead

About this title

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.

From Booklist

Whenever a character comes back as many times as Chief Superintendent Wycliffe (21 appearances), a reviewer is faced with a dilemma: What can you say that you haven't already said? Reviewing Wycliffe and the House of Fear (1996), we called attention to Burley's "solid plotting, well-described and colorful setting, and intriguing characters." All that is equally true in this story of the disappearance and possible murder of redhead Morwenna Barker, last known to be working for a Falmouth bookseller whose testimony once sent her father to jail for manslaughter. Morwenna is much more than she seems in Burley's delightful teaser of a plot, and the Cornwall setting, with its remote valleys and rugged coasts, is as vividly described as ever. The characters, again led by the thoughtful and insightful Wycliffe, are thoroughly satisfying. 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. Stuart Miller

Edition details

• Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575064706
• ISBN 13: 9780575064706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192