The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her ghastly husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She finds a most ingenious way of doing it and looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.

A man held prisoner in an unfinished building desperately draws what he can see from his window, hoping that someone will work out where he is being held. That someone is Hodgkiss who helps Sergeant Sanderson find the captive in spite of some fast footwork from workmen who use an ingenious method to confuse which floor is which.

When a family moves house the wife accidentally leaves behind some valuable jewellery behind. But the new owners don't know anything about the missing jewels, or so it seems until Hodgkiss gets involved.

The Mayor of Kanundda plans to blackmail a government minister with naughty photos of his wife. He locked them in his safe but when he went to take them out later they had disappeared. He was the only one with a key and the only one who knew the combination. How did it happen. It took Hodgkiss to uncover the extraordinary method devised by the council's general manager, the devious but desirable Jan Campbell-Jones.

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The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her ghastly husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She finds a most ingenious way of doing it and looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.

A man held prisoner in an unfinished building desperately draws what he can see from his window, hoping that someone will work out where he is being held. That someone is Hodgkiss who helps Sergeant Sanderson find the captive in spite of some fast footwork from workmen who use an ingenious method to confuse which floor is which.

When a family moves house the wife accidentally leaves behind some valuable jewellery behind. But the new owners don't know anything about the missing jewels, or so it seems until Hodgkiss gets involved.

The Mayor of Kanundda plans to blackmail a government minister with naughty photos of his wife. He locked them in his safe but when he went to take them out later they had disappeared. He was the only one with a key and the only one who knew the combination. How did it happen. It took Hodgkiss to uncover the extraordinary method devised by the council's general manager, the devious but desirable Jan Campbell-Jones.

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The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

by Peter Sinclair
The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Second Staircase and other Mysteries

by Peter Sinclair

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Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her ghastly husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She finds a most ingenious way of doing it and looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.

A man held prisoner in an unfinished building desperately draws what he can see from his window, hoping that someone will work out where he is being held. That someone is Hodgkiss who helps Sergeant Sanderson find the captive in spite of some fast footwork from workmen who use an ingenious method to confuse which floor is which.

When a family moves house the wife accidentally leaves behind some valuable jewellery behind. But the new owners don't know anything about the missing jewels, or so it seems until Hodgkiss gets involved.

The Mayor of Kanundda plans to blackmail a government minister with naughty photos of his wife. He locked them in his safe but when he went to take them out later they had disappeared. He was the only one with a key and the only one who knew the combination. How did it happen. It took Hodgkiss to uncover the extraordinary method devised by the council's general manager, the devious but desirable Jan Campbell-Jones.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780645383430
Publisher: Silverbird Publishing
Publication date: 01/07/2022
Series: Hodgkiss Mysteries
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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.
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