The artists colony is at the site of a disused mine working on the moor west of St Ives & its run by Archer & his wife Lina according to astrological principles. The newest member of the colony is Francine a beautiful if fey young woman with a legacy to invest. Archer isnt keen
- not least because she is a Scorpio
- but Lina takes a more pragmatic view. Then Francine is found dead killed by a deliberately blocked gas-heater flue. Wycliffe investigates
- & soon discovers that several members of the colony have very good reasons for not wanting the police poking into their affairs.. .


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When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. But the case against him is strong: he has the motive the opportunity & the know-how; not to mention the fact that there is some hard circumstantial evidence against him. So Cedric is arrested. But Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a strong sense that something about the case just doesn't fit. As he quietly continues his investigations a confusing picture emerges. Twenty years ago Cedric's cousin was convicted of strangling his girlfriend & served fourteen years of a commuted death sentence. While the wheels of justice begin to grind Wycliffe searches for a link between past & present ' ...

THE THREE-TOED PUSSY: A case involving a dead woman with a deformed foot & a mysterious past requires Superintendent Wycliffes investigative skills. HOW TO KILL A CAT: Wycliffe is on the case of a mutilated murder victim & finds there are too many suspects too many motives
- & too many lies...THE GUILT EDGED ALIBI: A family feud leads to murder in Wycliffes latest case. DEATH IN A SALUBRIOUS PLACE: On the beautiful tranquil Scilly Isles a brutal murder is uncovered...DEATH IN STANLEY STREET: A young girl is found dead in a house on Stanley Street but its just the start of a complex puzzle which Wycliffe must unravel.
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Wycliffe's home overlooks a peaceful West Country estuary
- but even here he can't get away from crime. When he is taking a Sunday
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

The official guide to backpacking or walking the Wye Valley Walk 136 miles through the Welsh borders crossing between Wales & England from the coast at Chepstow to the slopes of Plynlimon. Easy walking on good paths passing sites such as Tintern Abbey Goodrich Castle Hereford Cathedral & Hay-on-Wye. The Wye Valley Way offers a perfect mix of river & hill walking as it follows the River Wye. The walk leads through a dramatic limestone gorge dense woodland beneath limestone crags & past peaceful river meadows in some of the most superb scenery in the heart of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the birthplace of tourism & the Picturesque movement. The route passes through historic Tintern Monmouth & Ross-on-Wye & into the gentler rolling landscape of Herefordshire with black & white villages famed cider orchards landscaped parks & fertile agricultural plains into the rugged uplands of Powys. This new official guide describes the whole route in detail from Chepstow to its source in Hafren Forest all illustrated with colour photographs & OS map extracts & also

Includes:: a Wye Valley Walk passport for walkers to collect stamps along the route for a permanent record of their journey.

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The story of Wylam village in Northumberland is a story about the origin of railways. The birthplace of George Stephenson it was the centre for the first revolutionary pioneering work on railway engineering which laid the foundation for all that followed. At the beginning of the nineteenth century on the instigation of colliery owner Christopher Blackett a series of revolutionary experiments in railway technology were conducted. The principal protagonists read like a roll call of great railway engineers: the wayward genius Richard Trevithick the devout Methodist Timothy Hackworth who wouldn't work on the Sabbath & the portly asthmatic William Hedley who oversaw the work. It was Hedley who in 1813 would invent the legendary Puffing Billy the first reliable working steam locomotive. ...

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir & the crown of the kingdom both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off & you're facing a future with knives in it... ...

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir & the crown of the kingdom both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine particularly when the blood on your hands just wont wash off & youre facing a future with knives in it... ...

Nick & Laurie thought their giant problems were solved after they lured all the giants into the sea. But now the Grace kids are back to tell them they may have caused more trouble! It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra a dragon like creature that creates sinkholes all over Florida. But with the mermaids refusing to return the giants to the shore Taloa still demanding their help in looking for her lost sisters & the threat of Floridas destruction drawing closer the kids have to take matters in their own hands. Will Nick & Laurie be able to stop the chaos they unwittingly caused? Is the giant hunter Noseeum Jack really as helpful as they thought? Can Arthur Spiderwicks infamous Field Guide help them out of this mess? Find out in the final instalment of the bestselling series Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles! ...