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Shem's Demise

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21st January 2014

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781471908101

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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.