SOMERSET TALES OF MYSTERY AND MURDER.

Paperback. This collection of stories includes the discovery of the bodies of 2 murdered women near the same spot on the Quantock Hills in different centuries and the possibility of a 3rd, Suzy Lamplugh; the details of the many sightings of the beast of Exmoor; the suspicion of Nether Stowey villagers that they harboured a French spy in their midst who turned out to be one of England's most famous poets; and the mysterious explosion at Brean Down Fort, near Weston-super-Mare, in 1900. Other tales recount the murder of an over-zealous cleric at Old Cleeve near Watchet; the unexplained deaths of 18 pilots from Westonzoyland airfield in the space of just over 2yrs. in the 1950s; the unsolved crime against Sarah Watts, a 14yr. old girl from West Woodlands, near Frome; the ancient myth of Jesus's visit to Glastonbury; and the twists and turns of the case involving Norman Stone and the MP and leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, which began on the road to Porlock. Illus., Bibliog. 94pp. New trade size softcover.