Budleigh in Books: Part 2
[Click http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/budleigh-in-books-part-i.html to read Budleigh in Books Part 1 ] One of Grainger’s many books, The Solutions of Radford Shone was published by Ward Lock in 1908 Image credit: http://www.batteredbox.com I reckon that Budleigh makes a good setting for crime thrillers. Plenty of Colonel Mustards - well, not so many nowadays, perhaps. Arsenic, maybe, and certainly masses of old lace in Fairlynch Museum. Lots of possibilities of suspicious drownings, riding accidents and falls from the cliffs. Francis Edward Grainger thought so anyway. The son of a clergyman, he had an army career before finding his vocation as an author and journalist. He lived at various addresses in Budleigh Salterton , including ‘Almora’ at 33 Station Road, at Sherbrook Lodge and on Marine Parade. H e died in Budleigh in 1927 at the age of 70 after writing more than 60 detective sto...