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Also by John Bude:

A Telegram from Le Touquet, May 2025
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The Sussex Downs Murder, May 2015
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THE SUSSEX DOWNS MURDER
By: John Bude

British Library Crime Classic

British Library Crime Classics #1
Poisoned Pen
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
Featuring: John Rother; William Rother; Superintendent Meredith
242 pages
ISBN: 1464203717
EAN: 9781464203718
Kindle: B00VEZEEHU
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Mystery Police Procedural | Literature and Fiction Classics | Thriller Crime

'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!’ Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister – connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother’s wife? Superintendent Meredith is called to investigate – and begins to suspect the worst when human bones are discovered on Chalklands farmland. His patient, careful detective method begins slowly to untangle the clues as suspicion shifts from one character to the next. This classic detective novel from the 1930s is now republished for the first time, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards.