The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the visit to Henly and Other Mysteries

Description: 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. 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.

Price: 39.58 AUD

Location: Hillsdale, NSW

End Time: 2025-01-27T09:08:35.000Z

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