Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries
Download The Hodgkiss Mysteries full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Hodgkiss Mysteries ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Rent Book and Other Stories by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Rent Book and Other Stories written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G reedy killers think they can get away with a perfect murder by copying the story line of a famous mystery novel. But they are so utterly incompetent that Hodgkiss and son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, soon see through their plot.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Apolitician who is about to be 'outed' by the media is persuaded to disappear before he can bring disgrace on his Party. To achieve this a corrupt policeman invents a novel method of identifying a murder victim in the place of the disappeared politician. It was a method that could have worked but for Hodgkiss' intervention. A bungling burglar drops a stolen ring in the street after performing a theft-to-order for a friend ... stealing jewellery for an insurance fraud. Unfortunately for him the drama takes place in full view of Pat Strong's town house. So when Pat involves Hodgkiss he decides to take a hand. An advertisement in the local paper is all that's needed to bring the incident to a surprising end. Hodgkiss is indisposed when Donald is confronted with another locked room murder puzzle. So Esme accepts the challenge. She visits the crime scene, photographs the suspicious elements, consults her father and they demonstrate to Donald how the murder was done.
Book Synopsis Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUSTRALIAN. When Hodgkiss accompanies his daughter, and her husband, on what he fears will be a boringholiday to a Pacific island paradise, Hodgkiss's instincts soon detecttension among the locals when a time capsule, buried twenty years earlier, is about to be raised. His investigations among the colourful island characters enable him to solve several mysteries that have puzzled the locals for years,In this fourth volume of stories the sharp sixty-eight year-old shows how logic and the ability simply to observe circumstances and events brings surprising results.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 11 by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 11 written by Peter Sinclair and published by Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss and the Shack in the Woods Hodgkiss and the Wrong Rifle Hodgkiss and the Open Door In this, the eleventh volume of the Hodgkiss Mysteries, Edgar Hodgkiss is confronted with three examples of that most baffling of all forensic challenges ... a body found in a locked room with no way in or out. How can the killer leave the scene of the crime without a trace? These three cases demonstrate three different ways in which such a crime can be committed and they demonstrate, too, Hodgkiss' genius for unravelling the most complicated crimes in his usual aggressive and uncompromising manner. These three cases, The Shack in the Woods, The Wrong Rifle, and The Open Door, provide three different solutions for what looks at first sight to be three insoluble problems.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss is persuaded to investigate the death of a boy at the very school which he attended decades earlier. As his inquiries progress he becomes horrified at what he finds; blackmail, intimidation, attempted murder and finally murder.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disgraced politician plans a complex and bizarre method of taking his own life, hoping to leave wife facing a murder charge. Hodgkiss has to make use of all his powers of imagination to make sense of the few clues left behind and demonstrate how the man managed to kill himself then make the gun disappear. When two bodies are found shot dead lying side by side in a park Inspector Donald Burke decides it is very likely murder-suicide. But there are no fingerprints on the gun which is lying on the ground between them. When Hodgkiss begins to look into the family history a very different, dark picture emerges. Visiting a country town with his friend Pat Strong, Hodgkiss is soon investigating the death of an unpopular man whose body was found in a motel room with the door barricaded inside by a heavy chest of drawers. Everyone thinks it must have been suicide. But Hodgkiss knows that the locked room scenario can conceal murder ... and this is no exception. Hodgkiss, who haunts charity shops in his quest for wristwatches, is baffled when a particular knife he wants to buy disappears mysteriously from the shop's window when the shop is closed and returns just as mysteriously later . When such a knife is used in a murder Hodgkiss knows where to go looking for the killer.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in hospital recovering from a bout of low blood pressure Hodgkiss takes a more-than-usual interest in the cottage next door. From a few observations made from his bedroom window he pieces together an elaborate murder plot designed to appear as suicide. Sitting in the audience during the recording of a popular quiz programme Hodgkiss notices some very odd happenings. Then when the big cash prize goes off he decides to look further into the matter and very soon discovers how the winning contestant managed to cheat with some very cunning help from a friend in the audience. The dying motorist is desperate to leave his wife a clue about where he hid her jewels for safe-keeping. But the Good Samaritan he gave the vital information to only wants to help himself. Hodgkiss, a friend of the dying man, pieces scraps of information together to thwart the greedy thief. The Mayor of Kanundda and his wife have gone on a mountain climbing junket to Venezuela. The mayoress disappears in mysterious circumstances and soon turns up dead. Hodgkiss develops an elaborate scientific theory deigned to shoot holes in the the mayor's story about the circumstances of his wife's disappearance. But this time it is Hodgkiss who has his facts wrong ... although it makes no difference to the mayor's fate.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume XIII: Hodgkiss and the Moving Body and Other Stories by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume XIII: Hodgkiss and the Moving Body and Other Stories written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A promiscuous government minister puts at peril the prospects of his party at the polls when a young woman who works in his office dies in his bed. When he calls two bumbling assistants to remove the inconvenient corpse things go from bad to worse. Edgar Hodgkiss, who by chance is waiting at the police station to meet his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, overhears a conversation between a sergeant and a complaining citizen. Then he sees a distinctive sports car being brought in for forensic examination. From these two tenuous threads Hodgkiss untangles a seedy web of deceit and corruption going to the very highest level of government. Hodgkiss is something of a purist when it comes to cricket. Fieldsmen should not stand about with their hands in their pockets and they certainly should not all run into the wicket to congratulate the bowler every time a wicket falls. So when a fast bowler dies mysteriously Hodgkiss knows where to look for the killer. Pat Strong invites Hodgkiss to go with her to visit a friend in the country. She knows Hodgkiss is no lover of the rural life and is likely to refuse. So she dangles a bait. The town has been plagued with a rash of nasty poison pen letters and things are getting bad. Hodgkiss can't resist the call. When they arrive Hodgkiss finds that his reputation as an investigator has preceded him. He is soon swept along in the bitter undercurrents that are dividing the little town. Even as they leave, with the problem solved apparently, Hodgkiss has a moment of doubt.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Two new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Hodgkiss' daughter Esme Burke has taken a job in a political Party's office. When a glamourous woman is picked as the Party's new candidate over the sitting member jealousies and back-stabbing erupt, soon resulting in murder. When one of the staffers, who has some very 'interesting' information about the Party's new glamour candidate, falls to his death in a stair well Hodgkiss makes the crucial observation that proves the death was no accident. Hodgkiss' friend, Pat Strong has bought an oil painting from the local charity shop. There is an auctioneer's label on the back and Hodgkiss thinks the painting might be valuable. So they decide to investigate. Their inquiries start at the auction house and very soon they find themselves in the dark world of art forgery ... and murder. A woman rings in to Crestwood Police to say that she has received a call that her husband has been murdered and the caller wants a ransom for his body. When Inspector Donald Burke, who takes the call, discusses the matter with his father-in-law, Edgar Hodgkiss, the complications set in. Family jealousy, greed and envy are just some of the motives behind the extraordinary situation that Hodgkiss uncovers.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 10 by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 10 written by Peter Sinclair and published by Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss and the Deadly Seance Hodgkiss and the Meaningful Message Hodgkiss and the Old Flame Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. A man who has accumulated incriminating information about members of the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council dies in mysterious circumstances. Local legend had it that the man kept this information in a black box hidden in his house. Then his wife, who attends a seance to contact her newly departed husband, also dies mysteriously and the contents of the black box disappear. When Hodgkiss becomes involved he soon locates the contents of the box in a most unlikely place. When Kanundda Council's newly-elected mayor is found murdered at his desk there is an apparently meaningless jumble of letters left on the screen of his computer. But when Hodgkiss and his companion, Pat Strong, look into the matter Pat, quite by accident stumbles on the surprising solution that enables them to reveal a killer from the dead mayor's last desperate message. Travelling in the train one day Hodgkiss notices a young girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to a girl he knew years ago. After an awkward meeting they soon realise that there are dark secrets in the girl's family that must be explored and brought into the light no matter what the cost. 'Edgar Hodgkiss is the scourge of the Kanundda Council. Thanks to 'leaks' from within the council, he is awake up to all the rorts, the skullduggery and the point scoring ... on this heavily factionalised council. And when he exposes them in the letters to the editor column of the local free newspaper, The Star, the trouble starts: murder, blackmail, backstabbing - the lot. The stories move quickly, hold your interest and are so easy to read.' - Harvey Grennan, Local Government writer for the Sydney Morning Herald. 'The author's style is charming and clever, with plenty of clues and red herrings to make an enjoyable read for all whodunit fans.' - Robin Fleming, Acres Australia
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss is researching for a book on crime in Kanundda when he reads in the local paper of a nasty outbreak of racism. But his research uncovers shocking events in his own community that mirrored the evils of the Nazi regime in the 1930s ... and two murders. Detective Inspector Donald Burke is called by panicked employees of Kanundda Council who just heard a shot in the room of their loathed boss. But when Donald arrives to investigate the room is locked up tight and when he breaks in the room is empty. Who fired the shot? How did the shooter get out of the room? Once again It is up to Donald's father-in-law, Hodgkiss, to provide the tricky but logical solution. A ten dollar note is found in the street. Someone has written on it the Morse code for SOS in a new fashionable colour of lipstick. But they also wrote a number which appears to be too short for a phone number too long for a street number. But Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong know that a life may be at risk. Discovering the message behind the number is vital.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of popular mystery stories has made his reputation by devising imaginative ways in which a killer can leave his victim in a room with all the doors and windows locked up tight. When the author is found dead ... murdered in his own locked studio ... Detective Inspector Donald Burke rules out murder until Hodgkiss views the scene. Hodgkiss soon provides a solution even more ingenious than any the author ever dreamed up. After playing a round of golf Hodgkiss and Donald Burke go to the change room where they arrive to hear the tail end of a conversation between two other players. But it is not just what they hear but the manner in which one of the other players was putting on his shoes that gives Hodgkiss the clue to solve a nasty murder that happens soon afterwards. When the man's body was found there was no doubt that death was due to a fall. But where did he fall from? The office building where he worked or the block of flats where he was a regular participant in drug-fueled orgies. Hodgkiss leaves the matter in no doubt.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume Five by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume Five written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss and the Second Bullet / Hodgkiss and the Stolen Memory / Hodgkiss and the Blonde Visitor Hodgkiss is a suspicious old sod. When he hears of a dead body found in a locked room and the police have written it off as suicide, his suspicions are seriously aroused. He wins no accolades when he tells his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, who has to investigate these crimes, 'The very fact that the body is found in such obviously improbable and contrived circumstances should, of itself, be sufficient to raise the gravest suspicions in the mind of any intelligent investigator.'This fifth volume of 'The Hodgkiss Mysteries' contains three such cases which present ingenious variations on the locked room murder theme.In the first story a particularly obnoxious member of Kanundda Council, a body notorious for its venal conduct, is found shot dead in his study. In spite of the barred windows and bolted door Hodgkiss soon demonstrates how the man was murdered and his killer managed to escape the scene of the crime.The second case is a new variation on the theme where the body is discovered in a flat with all the windows and doors locked and the safety chain on the door in place.The third case offers an entirely new approach to solving the problem of the locked room murder. The solution is complicated when a water main bursts in the street outside the murder house, creating a huge hole in the roadway which attracts emergency services and news crews. Hodgkiss is baffled until he re-reads a children's book which unexpectedly presents him with an unlikely solution. A must for lovers of locked room murders and impossible crimes.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Four adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong visit a friend in a rented house adjacent to a council car park. When a bottle flies over the high wall surrounding the car park Hodgkiss wonders if was just someone skylarking or something more sinister. Later when the owner of the house has moved back in another bottle arrives with fatal results. An accident? Hodgkiss thinks not and he makes a acute observation that points to murder. A distant relative in a remote country town appeals to Esme for help in finding the family fortune. Hodgkiss, who doesn't like the sound of this proposition, insists on accompanying his daughter. They have no sooner arrive when a body is found in a locked room at the farmhouse. Hodgkiss at once suspects murder although all the family can account for their whereabouts at the time. But Hodgkiss still shows how a most ingenious murder was planned and executed. Hodgkiss hears of some unusual activities at a huge local storage complex. Then when Inspector Donald Burke tells him that there has been a massive drug theft Hodgkiss decides that one of the hundreds of units in the complex would be a good place to hide the drugs ... and a body. Charles Conder arranges for his mistress to drive the body of his wife, who he has just murdered, to the car park at a railway station He takes infinite precautions to see that she is not detected on route. But the plan is so complicated that it is doomed to go wrong. Hodgkiss and Sergeant Sanderson, with some clever deductions and a bit of luck, soon unpick the plot.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss can't resist a challenge.When he receives a threatening message on his mobile phone, although it is a wrong number, he sets out to track down the caller in spite of his daughter, Esme's, misgivings. When it turns out the call was from an employee of the terminally compromised Kanundda Council he knows he must have stumbled on some form of corrupt behaviour. Then he overhears other calls which, taken separately seem harmless enough, but soon they form a sinister pattern which results in Hodgkiss uncovering a murder and a devious plot to swindle council.
Book Synopsis The Hodgkiss Mysteries by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries written by Peter Sinclair and published by Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to investigate a cold case murder.
