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The Hodgkiss Mysteries
The author of popular mystery stories has made his reputation by devising imaginative ways in which a killer can leave his victim in a room with all the doors and windows locked up tight. When the author is found dead ... murdered in his own locked studio ... Detective Inspector Donald Burke rules out murder until Hodgkiss views the scene. Hodgkiss soon provides a solution even more ingenious than any the author ever dreamed up. After playing a round of golf Hodgkiss and Donald Burke go to the change room where they arrive to hear the tail end of a conversation between two other players. But it is not just what they hear but the manner in which one of the other players was putting on his shoes that gives Hodgkiss the clue to solve a nasty murder that happens soon afterwards. When the man's body was found there was no doubt that death was due to a fall. But where did he fall from? The office building where he worked or the block of flats where he was a regular participant in drug-fueled orgies. Hodgkiss leaves the matter in no doubt.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 10
Hodgkiss and the Deadly Seance Hodgkiss and the Meaningful Message Hodgkiss and the Old Flame Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. A man who has accumulated incriminating information about members of the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council dies in mysterious circumstances. Local legend had it that the man kept this information in a black box hidden in his house. Then his wife, who attends a seance to contact her newly departed husband, also dies mysteriously and the contents of the black box disappear. When Hodgkiss becomes involved he soon locates the contents of the box in a most unl...
The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 11
Hodgkiss and the Shack in the Woods Hodgkiss and the Wrong Rifle Hodgkiss and the Open Door In this, the eleventh volume of the Hodgkiss Mysteries, Edgar Hodgkiss is confronted with three examples of that most baffling of all forensic challenges ... a body found in a locked room with no way in or out. How can the killer leave the scene of the crime without a trace? These three cases demonstrate three different ways in which such a crime can be committed and they demonstrate, too, Hodgkiss' genius for unravelling the most complicated crimes in his usual aggressive and uncompromising manner. These three cases, The Shack in the Woods, The Wrong Rifle, and The Open Door, provide three different solutions for what looks at first sight to be three insoluble problems.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries
Hodgkiss is persuaded to investigate the death of a boy at the very school which he attended decades earlier. As his inquiries progress he becomes horrified at what he finds; blackmail, intimidation, attempted murder and finally murder.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries
Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to investigate a cold case murder.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries
A disgraced politician plans a complex and bizarre method of taking his own life, hoping to leave wife facing a murder charge. Hodgkiss has to make use of all his powers of imagination to make sense of the few clues left behind and demonstrate how the man managed to kill himself then make the gun disappear. When two bodies are found shot dead lying side by side in a park Inspector Donald Burke decides it is very likely murder-suicide. But there are no fingerprints on the gun which is lying on the ground between them. When Hodgkiss begins to look into the family history a very different, dark picture emerges. Visiting a country town with his friend Pat Strong, Hodgkiss is soon investigating t...
The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume Five
Hodgkiss and the Second Bullet / Hodgkiss and the Stolen Memory / Hodgkiss and the Blonde Visitor Hodgkiss is a suspicious old sod. When he hears of a dead body found in a locked room and the police have written it off as suicide, his suspicions are seriously aroused. He wins no accolades when he tells his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, who has to investigate these crimes, 'The very fact that the body is found in such obviously improbable and contrived circumstances should, of itself, be sufficient to raise the gravest suspicions in the mind of any intelligent investigator.'This fifth volume of 'The Hodgkiss Mysteries' contains three such cases which present ingenious variation...
The Hodgkiss Mysteries
Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. The terminally corrupt Kanundda Council is desperate to prevent the ratepayers from learning the extent of council's huge debt before the looming elections. Threats and stand-over tactics are on the table. But Hogkiss and council's highly desirable CEO, Jan Campbell-Jones, soon see off the plotters. Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong are having dinner with friends of Pat's when Hodgkiss has a close encounter with a bottle thrown from council car park on the other side of a high brick wall. Hodgkiss does not forgive or forget. His investigation turns up a history of hate and murder. While attending a sitting of the State Parliament Hodgkiss hears one of the government members ask his own leader a particularly embarrassing question. When the member is found murdered Hodgkiss, who accidentally overheard an indiscrete conversation, soon finds himself at the centre of the investigation being conducted by his son-in-law Detective Inspector Donald Burke.
Hodgkiss Mysteries
AUSTRALIAN. When Hodgkiss accompanies his daughter, and her husband, on what he fears will be a boringholiday to a Pacific island paradise, Hodgkiss's instincts soon detecttension among the locals when a time capsule, buried twenty years earlier, is about to be raised. His investigations among the colourful island characters enable him to solve several mysteries that have puzzled the locals for years,In this fourth volume of stories the sharp sixty-eight year-old shows how logic and the ability simply to observe circumstances and events brings surprising results.
The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume Three
Hodgkiss and the Selwyn Request / Hodgkiss and the Injured Possum / Hodgkiss and the Telescope - Hodgkiss is never wrong... Or hardly ever. He was quite certain that the number thirteen was never used on houses in the streets of Kanundda. That would be so unlucky! But this time he was wrong and his dogged refusal to admit it led to the discovery of an ingenious art theft being carried out under the nose of the local council.- Hodgkiss' passion for chess is on the wane and while staring absently between moves from the rear window of his opponent's flat, he notices some unusual goings-on in the carpark below. When the body of a neighbour is found locked in the flat next door, he insists, contr...
