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The Hide and Seek Murders
The Hide and Seek Murders
The Hide and Seek Murders
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Hide and seek may be child’s play, but murder most certainly is not.

Summer 1959. When murder comes to the garden party of the Reverend George Sixpence, the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes are despatched from Banbury police station to apprehend the killer.

Arriving at the splendid Victorian vicarage, Dykeman and Shapes find a group of suspects riddled with envy, bitterness and contempt for one another. As the two policemen struggle to uncover meaningful clues and Dykeman finds himself distracted by the arrival of pathologist Dr Sheila Delph, the killer stalks their next victim. This is one game the two policemen cannot afford to lose, but it seems as if the killer is out-playing them at every turn and it begins to look like there will be only one winner.

Get your copy now then find somewhere quiet to curl up and enjoy this tempting new mystery set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside.

The Hide and Seek Murders is the first in a classic murder mystery series set in the Oxfordshire town of Banbury in the early 1960s by British author Ben Westerham. If you like classic murder mysteries with a touch of romance and a streak of humour, then you’ll love these.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBen Westerham
Release dateOct 29, 2019
ISBN9781911085232
The Hide and Seek Murders
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Ben Westerham

Ben is the author of two crime and mystery series. The David Good private investigator stories are set in 1980s London, featuring a PI in tune with his neck of the woods and in possession of some distinctly pliable morals. The Banbury Cross Murder Mystery stories are classic murder mysteries set in the rural market town of Banbury during the early 1960s, featuring the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes.Ben's writing places an emphasis on strongly developed characters and invariably comes served with a side-order of humour.Born in London, Ben now lives in rural Northamptonshire in the English Midlands, with his family and a heavily over-worked computer.He writes just about every day and some of the resulting stories and other material is made available for free exclusively to readers who register here http://www.benwesterham.com/subscribe/.For more information please visit www.benwesterham.com.

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