Shrewsbury is a fine setting for a work of historical crime fiction. It would have been a much more important town in the Victorian era – the period when Leslie Scase’s Inspector Chard novels unfold. It would consequently, as we discover in this latest instalment, have been ripe for corruption and collusion. Throw in the lovely old high street and all those narrow alleys and gloomy churches, and we have a rich backdrop
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