The Love Street School Murders

By C.R. Searle

What motive, if any, linked the brutal murder of Violet Casterbrook, the wife of the headmaster of Love Street School, on the morning of the 17 December 1962, her bludgeoned body left for dead on the snow-covered terrace of their riverside home and the two murders that soon after followed hers, two of his pupils? A teenage girl intoxicated with youth, beauty, and thoughts of her first love and a harmlessly silly, much bullied boy, the butt of so many unkind jokes, each known to the other but not friends. No, never friends. Or the two murders that preceded these. One, in the days before Violet's death, the other a decade earlier. The former, a vivaciously attractive young woman with no connection to the school, a murder, which, when discovered, was horribly reminiscent of the sadomasochistic murder in colonial Hong Kong of a beautiful and highly respectable Chinese lady killed on a lonely beach. Murders that challenged the combined resources of Chief Inspector Tomon Hughes and his retired, onetime army CO., ex. MI6/SIS Officer Aubrey Alfred Dent, AA to his friends, to quickly solve. The victim's innocent the killer or killers' evil and with an undercurrent of supernatural menace that hung in the air.
Be amazed by a story which by degrees will thrill, confound, and shock you, and with an unexpected twist at the end that will surprise you but not defeat you and a fairy tale romance that is the intriguing counterpoint to this otherwise grim tale. And, if that is not enough to tempt you away from commonplace police procedurals, then enjoy the music of those now far off days. Yes, enjoy the music. Every chapter title a popular tune or song of the day, a reminiscence for older readers, a delightful awakening for younger ones.
A time past, a time so unlike now. A time when the world of children at home and in school was harsher than it is now when beatings and bullying in schools was commonplace and their teachers' men and women who demanded respect whether they deserved it or not, many did not. Teachers who had known a darker more frightening world than they had in wars, too terrible to contemplate, still fresh in memory and in the deeply troubled peace that followed them. A bitter trial for everyone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B5KQSN59
• ISBN13: 9798832153285
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"