Wycliffe and the Windsor Blue

Book info: Wycliffe and the Windsor Blue (Hardcover, 320 pages – Magna Print Books, 1989) – Magna Print Books, 1989. Language: Eng.

Condition: Very Good

From the book It hardly looks like a case for the police. Edwin Garland, painter and owner of an artist supply shop in Falmouth, dies while working on a canvas in his studio. It's no surprise to anyone, least of all his doctor. Edwin was approaching eighty, with high blood pressure and a smoking habit he refused to give up. His heart just stopped, pure and simple. Four days later, however, Edwin's son Francis is killed, murdered by a gunshot wound to the head. Coincidence? Possibly. But as Chief Superintendent Wycliffe knows, in the sinister game of murder, coincidences are often just another name for clues . . . In this case, the clues add up to a staggering list of suspects, each of whom would profit from the death of both father and son. There's Cathy Carne, the beautiful niece, whose inheritance includes Edwin's profitable shop . . . Anna Brooks, the illegitimate daughter, whose boyfriend has a penchant for trouble . . . Beryl Garland, the spinster sister, who can't hide her anger . . . and Alan Tate, the family physician, whose saintly demeanor might just be too good to be true. As Wycliffe sifts through the evidence, he discovers a trail of scandal and gossip that leads him from the colorful world of an artist's imagination to a dark and deadly place, where murder can happen-again.