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Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase
Published in 1982
From the dust jacket:
Wycliffe's home overlooks a West Country estuary, a delectable place, but even here a Detective Chief Superintendent can't get completely away from crime. When he is taking a Sunday morning walk along the shore, he comes upon a service revolver with one chamber recently fired. In recent years he has often regretted that his rank cuts him off from the early stages . of an investigation, but here he is in at the very start, and he makes this case peculiarly his own.
It takes Mr Burley's well-known and well-loved detective into a world of art robberies, crooked dealers, a suicide which may be a murder, a disappearance which may be another murder, a hunt for a missing yacht, and much more. It is a meticulously plotted tale, beautifully patterned and most engagingly written: Mr Burley on top form.
 
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