# The Witch at Wayside Cross

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- Book: [The Witch at Wayside Cross](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-tuttle/the-witch-at-wayside-cross) ([The Witch at Wayside Cross.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-tuttle/the-witch-at-wayside-cross.md))
- Authors: [Lisa Tuttle](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-tuttle)
- Publisher: arcadia
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-454-8
- Published: 2017-08-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, crime or puzzling circumstances, think of Jesperson and Lane . . . Jesperson and Lane have just solved their first major case when a man bangs violently on their door - and almost immediately drops dead. The police rule death by natural causes, but the detectives are determined to find out what really happened . . . Mr Manning was screaming about witches before his death. The case takes them to Mr Manning's Norfolk home, a land of mysterious Shrieking Pits and ancient knowledge. Mr Manning was himself a member of the enigmatic School of Ancient British Wisdom, and not the first to suffer a similar fate. Local gossip suggests that he was secretly engaged to one of the three lovely sisters who reside at Wayside Cross - but which one? Are they really witches, as the gossips also claim? And what does all this have to do with the mysterious Shrieking Pits and a mother desperate to find her missing baby? Jesperson and Lane, at your service. 'One of the SF and fantasy & horror field's most urbane - and much under-appreciated- writers' Love Reading