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For one young woman, a sizeable and unexpected legacy comes with the ultimate price-tag, her life. A rural ideal in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside is shaken to its foundations when the body of a beautiful woman is found at the bottom of a field-side ditch. Still smarting from the loss of his one-true love, Inspector Leslie Dykeman, accompanied by his irascible side-kick, Sergeant Stanley Shapes, is sent to investigate. What they uncover is a web of secrets, lies, jealousy and greed. But which of these, he asks himself, lies behind such a shocking murder? A Legacy of Death is the fourth book in a classic murder mystery series set in the Oxfordshire town of Banbury in the early 1960s by British author Ben Westerham. If you like classic murder mysteries with a touch of romance and a streak of humour, then you'll love these. Buy it now and see if you're up to the challenge of identifying the killer before Dykeman and Shapes can unmask them.

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Ben is the author of two crime and mystery series. The David Good private investigator stories are set in 1980s London, featuring a PI in tune with his neck of the woods and in possession of some distinctly pliable morals. The Banbury Cross Murder Mystery stories are classic murder mysteries set in the rural market town of Banbury during the early 1960s, featuring the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes. Ben's writing places an emphasis on strongly developed characters and invariably comes served with a side-order of humour. Born in London, Ben now lives in rural Northamptonshire in the English Midlands, with his family and a heavily over-worked computer. He writes just about every day and some of the resulting stories and other material is made available for free exclusively to readers who register here http: //www.benwesterham.com/subscribe/. For more information please visit www.benwesterham.com.

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