Peter Sinclair

Broschiertes Buch

The Hodgkiss Mysteries

Hodgkiss and the Missing Bronzes and Other Stories

Beschreibung

In these five stories all of Hodgkiss' powers of observation are taxed to the full. When he saw the killer's cabin cruiser returning to its berth at the marina what was it that Hodgkiss saw that convinced him the man had been involved in the theft of a number of valuable bronzes figures? Hodgkiss had never heard of a pocket call until he received one. Then from the few words he overheard he uncovered a conspiracy being planned by greedy politicians and their cronies. The unscrupulous political wheeler-dealers find themselves in all sorts of trouble when a highly confidential email goes astray. Hodgkiss' friend Pat Strong answers a call for help from a friend who has been the victim of political skull-duggery and with Hodgkiss' help things are soon put to rights. When Hodgkiss friend Pat Strong receives an urgent call for help from an old friend Hodgkiss soon notices inconsistencies in the tale the friend had spun. There was plenty of blood. But whose was it? The unscrupulous Kanundda councillors are desperate to prevent details of their latest crooked money-making scam from reaching the public. So in their efforts to hush it up they threaten the elderly employee in charge of recording all meetings.

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: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 347g
• ISBN-13: 9780645070538
• ISBN-10: 064507053X
• Artikelnr.: 61281639