Each year at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-size effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea—a re-enactment of a hideous ancient legend of human sacrifice. So when Jonathan Riddle, a respected local builder and undertaker, disappears, it seems all too likely that his corpse has gone the way of the historic “scapegoat.” As Wycliffe begins to investigate Riddle’s family life, more and more unpleasant facts begin to emerge, until eventually he’s left with an incredible, seemingly impossible, solution.
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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.
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JONATHAN RIDDLE WALKED down Bethel Street between two rows of identical granite cottages whose front doors opened on to the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Laura Passmore, Mary Penrose, Matthew Choak, Albert Terrace, Salvation Street, Prospect Terrace, Sidney Passmore, Miss Hicks, The Idlers, Buller's Hill House, Ernie Passmore, Jonathan Riddle, Stockholm Backs, Bal Lane, Cissie Jordan, Fish Co-operative, Kernick Head New!
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JONATHAN RIDDLE WALKED down Bethel Street between two rows of identical granite cottages whose front doors opened on to the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Laura Passmore, Mary Penrose, Matthew Choak, Albert Terrace, Salvation Street, Prospect Terrace, Sidney Passmore, Miss Hicks, The Idlers, Buller's Hill House, Ernie Passmore, Jonathan Riddle, Stockholm Backs, Bal Lane, Cissie Jordan, Fish Co-operative, Kernick Head New!
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- Death in Stanley Street by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Tangled Web (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Last Rites (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter
- Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics) by Elena Semino on page 171
- Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine (Wycliffe Series) by W. J. Burley in Front Matter
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