Peter Sinclair

Broschiertes Buch

The Hodgkiss Mysteries

Hodgkiss and the Fractured Limb

Beschreibung

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.

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: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780645070569
• ISBN-10: 0645070564
• Artikelnr.: 61401671