The High Sheriff

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> Robert D'Arcy, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, was a proud and vain man haunted by fear. And, sitting on the Bench, at the right hand of the Judge, during the long drawn-out days of the Autumn Assize, he knew that - in one way at least - he was no better than any of the criminals being hauled before him. This was his guilty secret. What happened when a blackmailer threatened that his secret would be a secret no more is the subject of this immensely readable novel. >When it was first published in 1937, the Sunday Times said of this book 'A sincere and penetrating study of a proud, perhaps a vain man, first haunted by a fear that he will be revealed as a coward and then haunted by the murder of the man who threatened to make the revelation'.

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Other Editions

• The High SheriffHoward Baker1970-01-01
• The high sheriffConstable1937-01-01