Peter Sinclair

Broschiertes Buch

The Hodgkiss Mysteries

Hodgkiss and the English Visitor and Other Stories

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Peter Sinclair has spent most of his working life writing. He began reporting courts and councils in rural Orange (NSW) in the late 1950s then worked briefly for The Sydney Daily Telegraph where, because of his fluent shorthand, he was sentenced first to report local councils then banished to the Coroner's Court. He'd had enough of sudden death and murder when opportunity knocked and he joined the staff of a new, large weekly paper in Sydney's northern suburbs, The North Shore Times where he was soon reporting councils again. In 1965, he climbed over the journalistic fence to work as press secretary for a succession of NSW cabinet ministers (both Liberal and Labor) until 1991. Since then, he has made guest reappearances to help out in the PR sections of government departments. His absorbing hobby is playing the piano. He has made a number of CDs in very limited editions. The titles tell it all: Peter Murders Mozart, Wrecks Rachmaninoff and Desecrates Debussy. He says he gives them away to people he doesn't like! He has been married to Margaret for fifty-seven years and they have two sons; Sam, who is married to Carolyn with one son, Harry, 18, and Patrick who is married to Beejai with twin boys, Jackson and Zachary, aged 13.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sid Harta Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780645070545
• ISBN-10: 0645070548
• Artikelnr.: 61394762