Beyond the Cane
About this ebook
As private investigators, he and his partner Fred Baker wanted to know why, so set about uncovering what skulduggery was going on. They set out to learn who the master was and his background. Anthony Oliver, a ruthless businessman who had purchased the school only to make money was the villain around what the school was about. In the process of investigation, blackmail, attempted murder, illegal gun-running and skeletons in cupboards were discovered. Criminal exploits including military service were exposed, and family reputations ruined. It was a good case to solve, to sell to a newspaper and a good story for the reader to enjoy.
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About the author
After leaving school at fifteen, James Harley served a five-year engineering apprenticeship before joining the merchant navy as an engineer officer for six years then returning to the MOD(N) PAS, still working as an engineer officer on their ships. He had to retire at age fifty-five on health grounds. He didn’t start writing books until he was seventy, when he wrote his unpublished autobiography, Three Score Years and Ten: The Life So Far of an Ordinary Man, under his real name, Harley Jones. He has been married to the same lady, Betty, for sixty years and has two grown-up children, Wendy and Ian, who between them produced three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He now spends his time enjoying DIY, gardening, playing bowls and writing novels and poetry for pleasure.
