num_pages: 176
description: Each year, at Hallowe’en, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man was strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea—a re-enactment of a hideous old legend where the figure had been a living sacrifice.And now Jonathan Riddle, well-known and respected local builder and undertaker, had disappeared, and it seemed all too likely that his corpse had gone the way of the historic ‘scapegoat’.As Chief Superintendent Wycliffe began to investigate the family life of Riddle, more and more unpleasant facts began to emerge until he was left with an incredible and seemingly impossible solution.
language: English
title: Wycliffe and the Scapegoat
titlecomplete: Wycliffe and the Scapegoat (Wycliffe, #8)
genres: Crime, Halloween, Police, Fiction, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 185
series: Wycliffe
publisher: Corgi