Wall of Silence: The Peculiar Murder of Jim Dawson at Bashall Eaves - Softcover

Jennifer Lee Cobban was brought up in Whalley, Lancashire and attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Girls before gaining a degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Manchester. She has worked in television, public relations and teaching. After moving to North London in 1983, she spent almost 20 years helping to run Barnet Museum as Archaeology Officer. Jennifer returned to the Ribble Valley in 2002 and now lives near Clitheroe.

Her particular interests aned specialist knowledge include the history and archaeology of witchcraft and folk magic and the history of the Knights Templar. She also enjoys the cinema, television and chasing ghosts about.

Her first book, Geoffrey de Mandeville and London's Camelot: Ghosts, Mysteries and the Occult in Barnet was published in 1997 and her second 800 Years of Barnet Market (with Doreen Willcocks) was published in 1999.

The murder of farmer Jim Dawson on a lonely country lane near Clitheroe in Lancashire on March 18th 1934 was never solved and has been described as 'The Perfect Crime'.

But did the villagers of Bashall Eaves, dubbed by the media 'The Village that Wouldn't Talk' really close ranks and maintain a wall of silence after the shooting? And why does the murder remain such a touchy subject in the Clitheroe area?

In this book, the full tragic story of Jim Dawson is chronicled for the first time by his great-niece, Jennifer Lee Cobban, as she explores the mysteries behind his bizarre murder. Drawing upon original police evidence and family records never before made available to the general public, she delves into the hidden history of one of the most remarkable puzzles in the history of criminology.