Wolf's Nick: The Death of Evelyn Foster - Paperback

by Michael James (Author)

Evelyn Foster died on 7 January 1931.She was 29.No one knows exactly why she died, or even if she was killed. They only know where and when it happened.This book is based on a true account of the inquest into her death (after which a verdict of murder by person or persons unknown was returned) and a case study carried out into it by six fictional characters - two law tutors and four post-graduate students at Newcastle Law School. Burned, frozen, semi-naked, barely alive, Evelyn was found by a bus crew on Twelfth Night 1931. She was lying yards from her burnt-out taxi on a bleak stretch of moor in Northumberland. Known locally as Wolf 's Nick, it lies off the main Newcastle-Jedburgh road six miles southeast of the village of Otterburn.Evelyn was taken home and died early the next day from shock caused by severe burning. Before she died she told her mother and the police that she and her car had been set on fire by a stranger in a bowler hat. She had given him a lift.But was it the truth?Matthew Armstrong, tutor at Newcastle Law School, has known for years that mystery cloaks the death of Evelyn Foster on that icy winter's night. With the help of a Professor in Law at Durham University, he decides to set four post-graduate law students a case study. After so long, they can't hope to bring a killer-if there is a killer-to justice. But can they shed any light on who and why?

Author Biography

Michael James, a pseudonym, was born and brought up in the Corbridge-Hexham area of Northumberland. He was educated at Hexham Grammar School and is a graduate of the University of Manchester. He has worked in both public and private sectors; as a planning director, a hotel owner, an oil company executive and a director of an events management company. His first wife, also a Northumbrian, died in 1997, and he has remarried and is now living in Scotland. He has been fortunate in that both his long-suffering wives have supported and encouraged his writing efforts. He has three children and four grandchildren, and enjoys reading, writing, painting (pictures, not walls), wildlife and sport (notably golf). 'The Pleasure Dome' was his first book; 'Secession' (set in the Holy Island of Lindisfarne) his second; 'Winds of Change' (a journey to Shetland, in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014) his third; 'Caransay' (set on a fictitious Atlantic island) his fourth; and 'Wolf's Nick' his fifth. His books are available in print and digital formats on Amazon and Kindle.