Wycliffe and How to Kill A Cat
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Wycliffe and How to Kill A Cat
By (Author) W.J. Burley
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
1st October 2006
6th July 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 110mm, Height 176mm, Spine 22mm
154g
Description
The girl was young, with auburn hair arranged on the pillow. Wycliffe could almost believe she was asleep - that is, until he saw her face. She had been strangled, and someone had brutally smashed her face - but after death, not before ... She lay in a seedy hotel room down by the docks, but her luggage, her clothes and her make-up all suggested she had more class than her surroundings. Superintendent Wycliffe was officially on holiday, but the case fascinated him. Who was the girl Why was she lying naked in a shabby hotel room. What was she doing with a thousand pounds hidden underneath some clothing. And, above all, why had someone mutilated her after she was dead As Wycliffe begins to investigate, he finds there are too many suspects, too many motives - and too many lies ...
Reviews
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""
"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"
Author Bio
W.J. Burley lived near Newquay in Cornwall, and was a schoolmaster until he retired to concentrate on his writing. His many Wycliffe books include, most recently, Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine. He died in 2002.
