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The body was found in the village school. The vicar of Rooksby-le-Soken in East Anglia was found on Monday morning on a classroom floor with a hole through his heart--but no trace of the bullet. Indubitably he had been killed on the spot, the blood on the wall behind him was proof of that. Detective Chief Inspector George Masters was sent by the Yard to sort things out and decided the method was less important than the motive. From his headquarters in the local pub Masters began his delving show more into the private lives of the villagers and soon discovered that the vicar was a much unloved incumbent. No one had a good word for him and quite a number had considerably less than that. The publican and his Italian wife, with an attractive, still unwed daughter of twenty-eight, the local G.P. and his obstreperous son who ran a joint practice, the village carpenter, and the schoolmaster with a grudge, were only a few of the suspects Masters unearthed in twenty-four hours. In a few days he had raked up enough dirt to put a lot of them on the spot. But in the end it was his capacity for remembering significant details and fitting them into the jigsaw that sorted out the man and the method. Praise for Douglas Clark "The many who miss the properly clued inductive detective story will fall on this one with relief" - Times Literary Supplement "A good, satisfying, competent whodunit, intelligently thought out and believable without unnecessary fireworks of sex or violence. And the answer, when it comes, is much more convincing than the majority of those in thriller dénouements" - ANTHONY PRICE, Oxford Mail Douglas Clark was born in Lincolnshire, 1919. He wrote over 20 crime novels and under other names, including James Ditton and Peter Hosier. show lessTags
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Second Masters and Green mystery. Masters and Green investigate the murder of a C of E clergyman at a construction site. The clergyman turns out to have been a thoroughly rotten fellow; suspects fall all over the place and Masters has to be very acute to suss out a very clever murderer and an unexpected murder weapon.
DCI Masters and DI Green are called in to investigate the death of a vicar. The body was discovered in the old village school of Rooksby. Because of the nature of the deceased there are no end of suspects. But can Masters and his team discover the guilty party.
An enjoyable crime story originally published in 1969
An enjoyable crime story originally published in 1969
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Adey's Locked Room Murders (0455)
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- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- George Masters; Bill Green
- Dedication
- For Patsy
- First words
- Big Ben struck eleven.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Masters murmured: "I'll leave you to it," and moved over to the fire.
- Blurbers*
- Phillips, Peter
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