Alan Price, Fordhamton Town Councillor and local businessman is killed when his car hits a brewery draw down a narrow lane. Initially it is thought to be a heart attack but a subsequent toxicology report indicates an unknown drug in his blood. Detective Inspector Steve Harley is pleased to be pulled away from his secondment to the murder team investigating a serial killer on a farm but when he asks for an assistant he gets Detective Constable Miles Davis who is thorough but knows no more a...

When the body of Bill Gibson is found on a piece of waste land beneath the bypass Detective Inspector Steve Winwood has no clues as to how or why as the victim lived over twenty miles away. He discovers from the rather eccentric antiquarian bookseller John Cherry that Gibson was a book illustrator.Whilst Winwood and his Sergeant Archie Tibbs uncover more about Gibson's reclusive lifestyle others in town are reminded of a previous proposed housing development on this piece of waste ...

Don't you wish you could always find the right words at just the right time to answer anyone who has upset you? You will find that reply in this book. It has over 750 insults from some of the wittiest, cleverest and smartest writers that have proved that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.This book of insults has been collected from the well-known to the hardly ever heard of; from the famous to the anonymous, from newspapers and TV to long forgotten and folded magazines....

When J's car broke down in the village of Greenwood his initial frustrations were quickly eradicated when he entered the Plough pub and fell immediately fell in love with the landlady Ruth. It seemed his classic car would not be repaired quickly and he and Ruth began a relationship over beer and fine dining. However he never quite explained what he was doing in the village and Ruth ad no reason to disbelieve his story of being a location manager lost in the English countryside. Then J's ex...

The first victim was 'Chalkie' White found with a cricket stump pierced through his heart in the Old Rutherfordians Cricket Club practice nets. Sergeant Archie Tibble was the first to mention vampires, but not the last. Detective Inspector Steve Winwood was not impressed.The second victim was Charlotte Lamb found on the centre pitch naked and strangled with an Old Rutherfordians tie but not before drinking a cocktail popularly known as a silver bullet. Thoughts of werewolves starte...

There were two unexpected mourners at Councillor Bob Ball's funeral; his Russian wife and daughter. Even more surprising because no one knew that Bob Ball was married. Whilst the guests gathered afterwards for drinks at the Council offices someone beat the Council Archivist to death in his office in the second basement. No one knew much about Gordon Nicholson, his work or his life. DI Steve Winwood and his Sergeant Archie Tibble and acting Detective Constable Emma Porter set about intervie...

In this second volume of the Fordhamton Trilogy things are still not going smoothly for the Trustees of Alan Price's will. What kind of memorial did he intend to represent 'Harmony, Industry and Co-operation'. Then the same three Councillors, the Mayor Michael Jackson, Peter Noone and Valerie Masters find themselves requested to deliver three envelopes in accordance with Arthur Brown's will. It seems the late Arthur Brown knew all about the affair between Peter and Val. What they did not e...

This is not your normal quiz book. It contains over 340 questions in 20 different categories based on news items from the 1980’s. However not the headline news but ordinary events experienced by ordinary people.The categories may be familiar such as The Arts, Business, Employment, Food and Drink, Politics, Sports and more in the same vein but the questions are not so familiar. General knowledge may not always help; a lack of it is not really a problem. A sense of humour is a great ...

Ex Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwod was enjoying his retirement and had forgotten all about aliens, flying saucers and men in black. He was happiest when sketching and painting pubs before they were demolished and drinking with his friends in the Wednesday Club. Then he was enticed back into service with the position of Commander and asked to search for a missing person. The case had echoes of previous cases he had been asked to solve but never to his satisfaction and raised even mor...

The Mayor of Fordhamton is not happy that listeners to Nice Radio had voted the town the third most boring in England. The first Fordhamton Arts Festival is born and soon runs into trouble when the stand-in for the dead body in The Real Inspector Hound is found dead onstage during the dress rehearsal. It brings into town Detective Inspector Miles Davis who is soon digging into the public and private lives of the actors – the actors being staff at Geno Washing County High School. Davis has ...

This follows on from Murder at the Fleetwood. Callum Greenwood and Yvonne Cornwall are on remand for the murders of Martin Prothero and Stella Livngstone. The case was solved to everyhone's satisfaction, even to the newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood. Then Ben Davies, a director of Rutherford Corinthian Football Club is found mudered in the supporters bar whilst the other ten directors convene a meeting in the boardroom. Steve's innvestigations involve the strange rules...

In October 2016 a story was reported in most popular newspapers that using old-fashioned scholarship and 21st-century computerised tools to analyse texts a team of international scholars have established that Shakespeare’s collaboration with other playwrights was far more extensive than has been realised until now.Christopher Marlowe’s hand in parts of the Henry VI plays has been suspected since the 18th century but this marks the first prominent billing in an edition of Shakespear...