A Legacy of Death

By Ben Westerham

For one young woman, a sizeable and unexpected legacy comes with the ultimate price-tag, her life.

A rural ideal in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside is shaken to its foundations when the body of a beautiful woman is found at the bottom of a field-side ditch. Still smarting from the loss of his one-true love, Inspector Leslie Dykeman, accompanied by his irascible side-kick, Sergeant Stanley Shapes, is sent to investigate. What they uncover is a web of secrets, lies, jealousy and greed. But which of these, he asks himself, lies behind such a shocking murder?

A Legacy of Death is the fourth book in a classic murder mystery series set in the Oxfordshire town of Banbury in the early 1960s by British author Ben Westerham. If you like classic murder mysteries with a touch of romance and a streak of humour, then you'll love these.

Buy it now and see if you're up to the challenge of identifying the killer before Dykeman and Shapes can unmask them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911085867
• ISBN13: 9781911085867
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Ben Westerham
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"