1987-1990 A Collection of Wycliffe Novels from W. J. Burley

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Three volumes. First edition. Gollancz Crime. Written by William John Burley, a Cornish crime writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Charles Wycliffe, which became the basis of the popular nineties television series Wycliffe. This set contains: Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue, 1987. Following the death of artist Edwin Garland from a heart attack, his family and friends gather for the funeral, and are shocked by the apparently motiveless shooting of the dead man's son. Wycliffe and the Tangled Web, 1988. Shortly after informing her boyfriend and sister of her pregnancy, a young woman from a quiet Cornish village goes missing. When a body surfaces, Wycliffe thinks he may have solved the vanishing, but his theory is soon dashed after an identification proves it isn't her. Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death, 1990. A local bookseller, Matthew Glynn, is found bludgeoned and strangled, setting Wycliffe on the trail of a killer whose identity is embedded deep within a mountain of family secrets.