Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery
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Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery (1993) is a crime novel by Cornish writer W. J. Burley.{{Cite web |url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-39997/Wycliffe-and-the-Dunes-Mystery.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 September 2008 |archive-date=24 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724123340/http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-39997/Wycliffe-and-the-Dunes-Mystery.htm |url-status=dead }}
Synopsis
Fifteen years ago, Cochran Wilder supposedly vanished during a walking holiday in Cornwall just after being released from a psychiatric hospital, where he was incarcerated after successfully pleading insanity for an indecent assault charge. His father, a prominent member of parliament, regards his son as a horrible embarrassment, and is in for more professional strife when Cochran's murdered body is found buried deep inside a sand dune.
Wycliffe suspects one (or possibly even all) of six figureheads in the local community, who had been spending an illicit weekend at a Chalet near the scene of Cohran's grisly end. When a series of threatening communications begin circulating and a second murder is committed, the sleuth finds himself caught up in a deadly race against time...