# The Whipping Boys

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- Book: [The Whipping Boys](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-cullingford/the-whipping-boys) ([The Whipping Boys.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-cullingford/the-whipping-boys.md))
- Authors: [Guy Cullingford](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-cullingford)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-804-9
- Published: 2015-11-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

As Miss Maggs made her way nervously home, a clock stuck one, the town's lights were switched off and footsteps sounded behind her. She broke into a desperate run. Later the doctor pronounced that she had literally died of fright. In a provincial town, who was there to suspect but the rowdy gang led by Nick Salter? But Nick's young wife swore to an alibi for him and so Sergeant Brent - a trifle embarrassed as a beneficiary under the will of the deceased - must look deeper into a case in which teenagers might too easily be made the whipping boys for the crimes of others.