The Late Jacob Robshaw

Julius Falconer

Dec 2022 · Julius Falconer Series Book 20 · Pneuma Springs Publishing

About this ebook

One day in April 1739, the vicar of Sherburn buries in the churchyard an unfortunate victim of murder, identified as Jacob Robshaw. Weeks later, Robshaw is seen alive and well. Then an ex-convict relates how Robshaw was murdered and buried at Sherburn after all. A report comes in that Robshaw, alive and pursuing a criminal career, has just been sentenced to transportation to America. The vicar is then invited to meet Robshaw in person, apparently free and wishing to establish a school for poor children. Is it any wonder that he is confused? And if Robshaw has not been murdered, who was buried at Sherburn? A fourth light-hearted tale from the diaries of the hapless vicar of Sherburn.

About the author

When Warwickshire-born Julius Falconer retired from what seemed a lifetime labouring at the chalk face in Cornwall and Scotland, he turned his hand to furthering a lifetime dream, namely producing a detective story which relied on reasoning; which teased and stimulated; which was well-written; which offered the discerning reader a plausible story; and, finally, which provided entertainment without sex and violence. His books set out not to topple the acknowledged greats – as if! - but to complement them with something perhaps a little homelier. The present book is his twentieth.