KP/JK/4/3/4 - 'A Moorland Mystery'
Reference code
KP/JK/4/3/4
Level of description
Item
Title
'A Moorland Mystery'
Date/s
1957
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Scope and content
Unpublished story by Jessie Kenney.
Story about an unsolved murder mystery that took place in a moorland parish in Lancashire. The innkeepers at the parish, a father William and his son Thomas, are brutally murdered and their murderer goes free. The story makes reference to the epitaph on their gravestone, which grounds them in communal memory. Part of it reads: “Those who now talk of far-famed Greenfield hills Will think of Bill o’Jacks and Tom o’Bills.”
Story about an unsolved murder mystery that took place in a moorland parish in Lancashire. The innkeepers at the parish, a father William and his son Thomas, are brutally murdered and their murderer goes free. The story makes reference to the epitaph on their gravestone, which grounds them in communal memory. Part of it reads: “Those who now talk of far-famed Greenfield hills Will think of Bill o’Jacks and Tom o’Bills.”
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved.
Existence and location of copies
A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/93
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KP - The Kenney Papers
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KP/JK - Jessie Kenney
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KP/JK/4 - Writings
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KP/JK/4/3 - Miscellaneous Writings
- KP/JK/4/3/4 - 'A Moorland Mystery'
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KP/JK/4/3 - Miscellaneous Writings
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KP/JK/4 - Writings
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KP/JK - Jessie Kenney