W. J. Burley (1914–2002)
Autor(a) de Wycliffe and the Scapegoat
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Obras por W. J. Burley
Wycliffe Omnibus: "Wycliffe's Wild-Goose Chase", "Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin", "Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death" (2009) 9 exemplares
Wycliffe omnibus 3 books in 1.Wycliffe in St Pauls Court.Wycliffe and the Beales.Wycliffe and the Tangled Web (2010) 7 exemplares
Second Wycliffe Omnibus: "Wycliffe and the Last Rites", "Wycliffe and the School Girls", "Wycliffe and the Dead… (1997) 6 exemplares
Quando i technol ci chiameranno 4 exemplares
The Wycliffe Omnibus: 'Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue', 'Wycliffe and the Four Jacks', 'Wycliffe… (1996) 2 exemplares
Wycliffe and th eThree-Toed Pussy 1 exemplar
Wycliffe 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Burley, W. J.
- Nome legal
- Burley, William John
- Data de nascimento
- 1914-08-01
- Data de falecimento
- 2002-11-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK
Okehampton, Devon, England, UK
Crewkerne, Somerset, England, UK
Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK - Educação
- University of Oxford (Balliol College)
- Ocupações
- teacher(biology)
business executive
crime novelist
author - Organizações
- Home Guard (WWII)
Institution of British Engineers
Truro Gas Company (technical assistant ∙ assistant manger)
Okehampton Gas Company (manager)
Crime Writers' Association
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- W.J. Burley started life as an engineer, and later went to Balliol College, Oxford, to read zoology as a mature student. On leaving Oxford, he went into teaching and, until his retirement, was senior biology master in a large mixed grammar school in Newquay. In 1966, at age 52, he created Inspector Wycliffe, setting the series of books in his native county of Cornwall. They were adapted into a television series in the 1990s. He was working on his 23rd Wycliffe novel, Wycliffe's Last Lap, when he died in 2002.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 1,864
- Popularidade
- #13,807
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 49
- ISBN
- 266
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
The novel is fairly well written and moderately interesting, and is quite a short book printed with large font so a quick read, but I realised 'whodunnit' about half way through. There were some red herrings, mainly around the culprit's motive, in an attempt to throw the reader off, but on the next to last page, the protagonist Wycliffe states exactly the motive I had identified halfway through. So, nice to get it right, but usually crime novels come as a surprise at the end and this didn't. I don't think therefore I will bother with any more of these.… (mais)