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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 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 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgkiss and the Word Game / Hodgkiss and the Moving Picture / Hodgkiss and the GO Players Observant, imaginative, creative, aggressive ... offensive, all terms that could be readily and fairly applied to Edgar Hodgkiss as he goes about the delicate business of assisting his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Burke, solve crimes without humiliating him.
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 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 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 Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 236 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. One night Hodgkiss sees a rare repeater wrist watch in an antiques shop windows, but next morning when he goes to buy it he finds, to his disappointment, that a woman had just beaten him to it.In his efforts to persuade the woman to sell the watch to him he finds himself in the middle of a mesh of lust, deceit and murder. While attending a garage sale Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong witness a very one-sided transaction in which an elderly lady is persuaded to sell a collection of valuable stamp albums for a derisory sum. Hodgkiss and Pat decide not to let the matter rest there and their investigation ends with an extraordinary murder. Hodgkiss takes a public service job to supplement his pension. In the course of his new duties he sees one of his fellow workers behaving in a puzzling fashion.It is not until a senior public servant is found murdered during his morning commute that Hodgkiss makes sense of what he had seen and uncovers the killer.
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 2021-02-20 with total page 208 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. When Ann Farley stops receiving emails from her boy friend who has travelled to Australia she decides to follow and investigate. With Hodgkiss' help they uncover a dark pathway of murder and fraud before the killers are brought to book. When Donald begins investigating the death of a man found in a locked room he immediately assumes it is suicide. But Hodgkiss knows the man's evil past and realises there are those who would like to see him dead. To convince Donald he must demonstrate how murder could have been done. Even in death Hodgkiss manages to defeat the plans of greedy members of Kanundda Council who have persuaded a government minister to aid and abet them in their latest massive scam. Hodgkiss finds a way to set the plotters at each other's throat and the scam falls apart. Tragically Hodgkiss is not there to celebrate his success
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 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 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: Hodgkiss and the Unsafe Safe and Other Stories by : Peter Sinclair
Download or read book The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Unsafe Safe and Other Stories written by Peter Sinclair and published by Hodgkiss Mysteries. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 210 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. In this volume we see three typical Hodgkiss mysteries presented in the form of film scripts. All three have appeared in earlier volumes of The Hodgkiss Mysteries in traditional story form. I decided to publish them as scripts in the hope of attracting the interest of a producer who may see in them the potential for a successful series of light detective stories. The final script in the volume, Closed Circuit, is the first episode of a sci-fi horror series. The challenge is for some imaginative writer/producer to see what can be done with this novel and very terrifying concept.
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 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 . 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 . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hodgkiss decides to join an exercise group run by a very attractive young woman his daughter, Esme, insists that his friend Pat Strong join the group as chaperone. Hodgkiss soon learns that the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council has plans to redevelop the park where the classes are held, plans that will greatly enrich the mayor and his cronies. But these plans are doomed because there is a murderer among the exercise group who commits his crime under cover of one of the exercise routines. When mail is delivered to the wrong addresses there can be serious consequences, as Hodgkiss discovers when his friend Pat Strong receives such a misdelivered letter. When they start to backtrack on the letter's history they find themselves on the trail of a ruthless psychopath who has killed to gain control of what he believes will be a valuable mine. The Mayor of Kanundda hires a killer with a strict code of honour to murder a public servant who is about to recommend that Kanundda Council be abolished. Hodgkiss, who bears a striking resemblance to the murdered man, manages to convince the mayor that the killer has not done the job and soon the mayor and his hired assassin are in savage disagreement.
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 2021-02-20 with total page 210 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. Hodgkiss and his son-in-law Detective Donald Burke are playing a round of golf when a savage storm hits sending them running for cover. But the same storm provides the cover for a cruel opportunistic murder and Hodgkiss is soon involved. Hodgkiss and Pat Strong were hoping for a quiet week away at Pat's seaside town house. But even there Hodgkiss can't escape the Kanundda Council's long tentacles of corruption ... this time in the form of a rort involving toxic filling being dumped in new playing fields. When Hodgkiss hears that a friend of Pat's has bought an expensive painting from a particular art gallery in Grattan he is keen to see the new acquisition. The behaviour of the gallery's manager soon arouses his suspicions and he decides to take an interest in the new purchase.
