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The Skeleton Man
Philip Dryden Mysteries (Book 5)
- Author
- Jim Kelly
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 22 May 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
But when a Territorial Army exercise is held amongst the ruins, a skeleton is found hanging in a bricked-up cellar, a noose round the neck. It seems that the ghostly village may hide many secrets and local newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is soon on the case.
Then a man, pulled unconscious from the river at nearby Ely, claims to have lost his memory, yet reacts with startled fear to the name Jude’s Ferry ...
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- Author
- Jim Kelly
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004194131
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude’s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime.But when a Territorial Army exercise is held amongst the ruins, a skeleton is found hanging in a bricked-up cellar, a noose round the neck. It seems that the ghostly village may hide many secrets and local newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is soon on the case.Then a man, pulled unconscious from the river at nearby Ely, claims to have lost his memory, yet reacts with startled fear to the name Jude’s Ferry ...
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