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The Skeleton Man

Philip Dryden Mysteries

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The Skeleton Man

By: Jim Kelly
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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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 ...

©2007, 2024 Jim Kelly (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Mystery

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This man has a repulsively muddled opinion of Animal Rights activists. As someone who rescued animals and had dealings with lovely admirable AR people I was furious listening to this ridiculous novel. Remove the totally erroneous and woefully misleading AR sections and this story is fine if depressing but I refuse to subscribe to an author who has the nerve to suggest AR people would ever mistreat any animals. To include a character who tortures animals in his labs and then is supposedly taking AR action is unbelievably warped. I persisted to the end in case Jim Kelly retracted his views on AR activists but he persisted in his antipathy towards them and ensured his AR characters were charged and the repulsive man who tortured animals in his labs continued to do so. I regret wasting a credit on this one.

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