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The Red Bicycle

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The Red Bicycle

By: Fergus Hume
Narrated by: Alain Alexander
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Summary
Every village loves a good piece of gossip. In Hedgerton, a sleepy English seaside resort that never quite became the fashionable watering-place its builders dreamed of, the talk of the day is the new tenant of Maranatha: a wealthy baronet who has inexplicably left the pleasures of London for a gloomy house with a grim reputation. The neighbours whisper that no good ever comes to anyone who lives there.
Why would Sir Hector Wyke choose such a place? Who is the reserved housekeeper guarding his door? And what is a gentleman of his standing hiding behind those shuttered windows? From the rectory laundry cart to the parlours of the local gentry, curiosity spreads fast, and nobody watches the house more closely than Neddy Mellin, the washerwoman’s sharp-eyed, mischievous son, always ready to pick up what he shouldn’t.
Then a visitor arrives, an evening ends in violence, and Hedgerton’s idle chatter turns into something far more dangerous. As suspicion drifts from one respectable doorstep to the next, every answer seems to lead to another question, and a quiet community discovers how little it really knows about its own neighbours.
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