Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place

This was my first Wycliffe mystery. I thought the story began well - W. J. Burley certainly knew his nautical terms and could describe a typical seaside village. The plot is a common one: a murder, a handful of suspects, a few exposed secrets... I enjoy a murder mystery as much as the next reader, so......more

This was a good read. Unlike the others I have read we know that the young lady has been murdered as we are present for the deed. However we don’t know who did it, so this is still a mystery rather than a procedural. To complicate matters there is a second murder. The two would seem to be connected,......more

One of the most elegiac Wycliffes, which is a feat since they are all quite melancholy. Something about the isolated island setting and the rainy weather just makes for a pervasive mood. Wycliffe himself is at his most sympathetic here, and the characters are well drawn.......more

A young girl is murdered on an isolated island – Burley sets the murder on a fictional addition to the Scilly Isles (there are over 140 islands situated more than 20 miles from the Cornish coast, like a geological afterthought, an extension dribbled from the long Cornish peninsula). The community bla......more

A young girl, Sylvie Eva, is found dead at the bottom of the cliffs on an island off of the south west coast. Wycliffe is sent out to show a presence from the mainland and it soon becomes established that the death is murder. The prime suspect, mainly because he is not a true islander, is ex-popstar......more