The Skeleton Man

by JimKelly (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $6.83

  The fifth Dryden mystery. In a walled-up cellar in an abandoned village, a skeleton is found, hanging from a butcher's hook. As the police begin an investigation to identify the man, Dryden sets out to uncover the truth of the abandoned hamlet known as Jude's Ferry.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $6.61

  For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Government for military training. In its thousand-year-old history, it had been famous for one thing - never having recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise in the empty village, its spotless history is literally blown apart. For the TA's shells reveal a hidden cellar beneath the old pub. And inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck ...Two days later, a man is pulled from the reeds in the river near Ely - he has no idea who he is or how he got there. But he knows the words 'Jude's Ferry' are important, and he knows he is afraid...