W.J. Burley

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    March 2007
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Full Series List in Order

A Scotland Yard Mystery

1 - Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy (1968)
2 - Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat (1970)
3 - Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi (1971)
4 - Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place (1973)
5 - Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street (1974)
6 - Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat (Sep-1975)
7 - Wycliffe and the Schoolgirls (1976)
8 - Wycliffe and the Scapegoat (1978)
9 - Wycliffe in Paul's Court (Jul-1980)
10 - Wycliffe's Wild-Goose Chase (Aug-1982)
11 - Wycliffe and the Beales (Jan-1984)
12 - Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (Mar-1986)
13 - Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin (Nov-1986)
14 - Wycliffe and the Windsor Blue (Sep-1987)
15 - Wycliffe and the Tangled Web (Jan-1989)
16 - Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Jun-1991)
17 - Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist (Apr-1992)
18 - Wycliffe and the Last Rites (Oct-1993)
19 - Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery (Jul-1993)
20 - Wycliffe and the House of Fear (Dec-1995)
21 - Wycliffe and the Redhead (Oct-1998)
Wycliffe and the School Bullies (Mar-2007)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 1

    A case involving a dead woman with a deformed foot and a mysterious past requires all Superintendent Wycliffe's investigative skills.The peace of the village of Kergwyns in Cornwall has been shattered by a bizarre murder. A beautiful young woman has ...

  • Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 2

    The girl was young, her auburn hair arranged on the pillow. Wycliffe could almost believe she was asleep--that is, until he saw her face. She had been strangled, her face brutally smashed--but after death, not before. She lay in a seedy hotel room do...

  • Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 3

    Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a scandal when her body was dragged from the bottom of the river. As Superintendent Wycliffe investigates, he's faced with a number of questions: W...

  • Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 4

    On the beautiful, tranquil Scilly Isles, a brutal murder is uncovered...There was no doubt at all that the girl was dead. The front of her skull and her facial bones had been splintered like the cracked shell of an egg. What made it even more shockin...

  • Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street

    • / Law Enforcement
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 5

    A young girl is found dead in a house on Stanley Street... but it's just the start of a complex puzzle which Wycliffe must unravel.A dubious cul-de-sac just off the busy main road in a sprawling West Country port, Stanley Street is definitely not a s...

  • Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 6

    Wycliffe tackles a case which reaches back down the generations ...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 str...

  • Wycliffe and the Schoolgirls

    • / Law Enforcement
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 7

  • Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

    • / Law Enforcement
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    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 8

    An ancient legend, an all-too modern murder, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe must find the link between them ...Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea -...

  • Wycliffe in Paul's Court

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 9

    Two violent deaths shatter a small community. And to solve the case, Wycliffe must untangle a complex network of secrecy within the quiet of Paul's Court . . .The Cornish Detective series'First-class, old-time, hyper-ingenious whodunit OBSERVERPaul's...



  • Charles and Elizabeth

  • The House of Care

    The Care family, with Sir Henry Care at its head, is based at Naneslow, its decaying family estate in Cornwall. Sixteen years before, there was a death in the family when Deborah, Sir Henry's first wife, fell from the top of Naneslow's tower. Since r...

  • Wycliffe's Wild-Goose Chase

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 10

    Chief Superintendent Wycliffe comes across evidence on his own doorstep - and it leads him into very deep water . . .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 mo...

  • Death in Willow Pattern

  • Wycliffe and the Beales

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 11

    A mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date.The Cornish Detective series'Gripping' THE TIMESThe Beales are an odd, reclusive family living i...

  • The Schoolmaster

    When his recently estranged wife's lover is murdered, Arthur Milton has no alibi and abandons his home, moves into a seedy boarding house, takes a young lover, and begins to investigate another, twenty-year-old murder...

  • Wycliffe and the Four Jacks

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 12

    A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case.Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of Cornwall. But ...

  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 13

    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to ...

  • Wycliffe and the Windsor Blue

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 14

    A mysterious death in the Cornish art world - and a murder investigation for Chief Superintendent Wycliffe...When Edwin Garland dies of a heart attack, no one outside the expectant circle of his relatives is concerned, but the situation changes drama...

  • Wycliffe and the Tangled Web

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 15

    A beautiful girl goes missing, and Wycliffe must untangle a mystery to solve a murder . . .A beautiful schoolgirl goes missing from a Cornish village on the day she has told her boyfriend and sister she is pregnant. The possibility that she has been ...



  • Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 16

    A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . .When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. Why would anyone want to kill him? But a look at Glynn's background re...

  • Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 17

    Classic crime featuring the ever-popular Chief Superintendent Wycliffe - 'Another must for collectors' Sunday Times.On the peaceful and secluded estate of Lord and Lady Bottrell, the body of amateur flautist Tony Mills has been found, shot by his ow...

  • Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 19

    A high-profile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland.Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from a psychiatric hospital after being convicted of indecent assault, he...

  • Wycliffe and the Last Rites

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 18

    The Cornish Detective seriesA puzzling murder mystery. A tough new case for Detective Wycliffe to investigate.'You can always count on Wycliffe' FINANCIAL TIMES'GRIPPING' THE TIMES A bizarre murder shakes a quiet Cornish village. Arriving at the ch...

  • Wycliffe and the House of Fear

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 20

    A troubling disappearance. A puzzling mystery. A new investigation for Detective Wycliffe.Detective Superintendent Wycliffe is holidaying in Cornwall when he meets the intriguing Kemp family. The Kemps have lived in Kellycork, their decaying family s...

  • Wycliffe and the Redhead

    A Scotland Yard Mystery - 21

    The Cornish Detective seriesThe discovery of a body in a quarry creates a baffling case for Detective Superintendent Wycliffe'First-class, old-time, hyper-ingenious whodunit' OBSERVERSimon Meagor was a lonely middle-aged man. With a broken marriage b...

  • Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine

    A murder at an artists' colony - but not everyone wants Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to investigate . . .The artists' colony is at the site of a disused mine working on the moor west of St Ives, and it's run by Archer and his wife Lina, according to...

  • Wycliffe and the School Bullies

    A Scotland Yard Mystery

    Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on ...

  • A Taste of Power

    • / General Fiction
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

W.J. Burley has published 28 books.

W.J. Burley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wycliffe and the School Bullies, was published in March 2007.

The first book by W.J. Burley, Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy, was published in January 1968.

Yes. W.J. Burley has 1 series.
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