Author: Edgar Jepson
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Unabridged: 0 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 03/20/2017
Genre: History - Europe
Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories."The Green Bicycle Mystery" is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire. She had been shot through the head. The last person seen in her company was a man on a green bicycle. When months later a green bicycle is dredged from a canal, the police are hot on the track of the mystery man.
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