W. J. Burley Bücher

Dr Henry Pym, scholar, recluse and amateur detective, is asked to help headmaster Tristram-Jones solve a nasty case of poison-pen writing at his school, perpetrated, it is thought, by one of the teachers. Miss Pugsley, a recent addition to the chemistry staff, is found dead at the foot of nearby cliffs, and Chief Inspector Judd joins the amateur sleuths. Her death is regarded as suicide, until analysis of her clothes points to suspicious circumstances. When Miss Barton is murdered on stage in the school play, it takes Henry Pym's hard logic, plus a last-minute surprise, to solve the mystery. "A Must for Crime Book Devotees" - WOMAN'S WORLD

Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a nightclub singer, the other a nurse, but both were strangled in their own homes in strangely efficient, remarkably similar attacks. The press is quick to assume there's a psychopath on the loose, but Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex. When another attack is aborted for no apparent reason, Wycliffe is certain that this is no random spate of murders. But with his superiors and the media uninterested in his theories, Wycliffe knows he will have to work alone to find the killer. As he searches for a link between the victims, his investigations take him back in timeto a school trip, an isolated hostel, and a cruel joke on a lonely student.

Third book in the long running Detective Superintendent Wycliffe series.