Master of the Moor

A stand-alone novel published by Hutchinson in 1982

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. It is a dark and forbidding place, but it is his.

When the body of a young blonde woman is found there, her face horrifically disfigured, the victim of a merciless murderer, his beloved moor is tainted with suspicion and terror.

Then a second woman goes missing on the moor, and Stephen watches as the search party makes their way across the treacherous murder scene. Not to be usurped by a killer or a victim; he, and only he, is the master of the moor.

Notes

• Abridged into ten parts and read by Christian Rodska for BBC Radio 4 in 1985.

• Adapted for TV by Trevor Preston in 1994.

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