The Hodgkiss Mysteries - Sinclair, Peter
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Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong, the scene of previous adventures. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to investigate a cold case murder. Isla Quinn, an old school friend of Donald's wife, Esme, becomes concerned when her husband mysteriously locks their bedroom door. When he attaches a bolt to the inside of the door she is…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong, the scene of previous adventures. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to investigate a cold case murder. Isla Quinn, an old school friend of Donald's wife, Esme, becomes concerned when her husband mysteriously locks their bedroom door. When he attaches a bolt to the inside of the door she is convinced he is planning harm. She looks to Hodgkiss for help. The submarine that shelled Sydney during World War 11 brought chaos to the lives of many Sydneysiders. But to none more than those who lived in a block of four flats where the occupants were already had serious differences and where homicide was already in the air.
Autorenporträt
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.