Dead Man's Quarry
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>*"The murderer was also riding a bicycle... why, if we can trace it, we shall have the murderer!"*
>On a cycling holiday in idyllic Herefordshire countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder - for the man was shot in the head. Fortunately John Christmas, last seen in *The Studio Crime* (1929), is on hand with his redoubtable forensic associate, Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.
>*Dead Man's Quarry* is the second of lanthe Jerrold's classic and influential whodunits, originally published in 1930.
>On a cycling holiday in idyllic Herefordshire countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder - for the man was shot in the head. Fortunately John Christmas, last seen in *The Studio Crime* (1929), is on hand with his redoubtable forensic associate, Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.
>*Dead Man's Quarry* is the second of lanthe Jerrold's classic and influential whodunits, originally published in 1930.
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