title: Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (The World's Classics)
author:  John Sutherland 
description: <br /><em>About the Author:</em><br /> <strong>John Sutherland</strong> is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London. He is the editor of a number <em>World's Classics</em>, including works by Anthony Trollope, Adam Smith, Jack London, and Thackeray.<br />
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  The Hanged Man
  
  
  
  
  
  A Digby Rolf Mystery
  
  
  Book 1
  
  
  
  
  
  Raymond M Hall
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Raymond M Hall 2018
  
  
  
  
  
  By the same author:
  
  
  
  
  
  Thou Shalt Not Permit a Witch to Live
  
  
  
  
  
  The Water Maiden
  
  
  
  
  
  The Importance of Being Roger
  
  
  
  
  
  The Haunting
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Raymond M Hall has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  To my wife and editor in chief, with gratitude as always for your constant
  support.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.’
  
  
  The opening line of his favourite novel leapt out of the page into tired eyes.
  John Moorcroft,