Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin
Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is not looking forward to Christmas. With his wife away in Kenya, he rashly accepts an invitation from Penzance lawyer Ernest Bishop to spend a few days at the Bishops’ cliff-top home. When Wycliffe arrives, the weather is bleak, the house is remote, and the welcome...
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Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is not looking forward to Christmas. With his wife away in Kenya, he rashly accepts an invitation from Penzance lawyer Ernest Bishop to spend a few days at the Bishops’ cliff-top home. When Wycliffe arrives, the weather is bleak, the house is remote, and the welcome from the family no more than polite. Then, on Christmas Eve, a young girl goes missing after playing the part of the Virgin in the local nativity play. It’s left to Wycliffe to initiate a searchbut what begins as a missing person case soon turns into a major criminal investigation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752849331 (0752849336)
Publish date: November 1st 2002
Publisher: Orion Publishing
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Wycliffe (#13)
A Wycliffe book is very much in the spirit of Agatha Christie, just slightly down the social scale. Where Christie sets her murders in the country house mansions of the upper classes, Wycliffe deals with the well-to-do upper middles. Still a biggish house, a servant or two and afternoon tea, but eve...
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