# Shem’s Demise

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- Book: [Shem’s Demise](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-underwood/shems-demise) ([Shem’s Demise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-underwood/shems-demise.md))
- Authors: [Michael Underwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-underwood)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-810-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-01-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Every autumn an old reprobate, tramp and scrounger, mysteriously known as Shem, drifts into the village of Long Gaisford. Kenny, a young boy, likes Shem. It's not his fault that the well-meant tip he gives Shem should lead to disaster. The local Detective-Superintendent of Police is within weeks of retirement; to him the demise of Shem revealed clearly as 'foul play', is very bad news, especially as Kenny will not talk - and, as the story develops Shem's death unlocks deeper implications.