Böcker av Sinclair Peter Sinclair

When Hodgkiss decides to join an exercise group run by a very attractive young woman his daughter, Esme, insists that his friend Pat Strong join the group as chaperone.

In these five stories all of Hodgkiss' powers of observation are taxed to the full.

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.

Hodgkiss doesn''t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Ann Farley stops receiving emails from her boy friend who has travelled to Australia she decides to follow and investigate. With Hodgkiss'' help they uncover a dark pathway of murder and fraud before the killers are brought to book.When Donald begins investigating the death of a man found in a locked room he immediately assumes it is suicide. But Hodgkiss knows the man''s evil past and realises there are those who would like to see him dead. To convince Donald he must demonstrate how murder could have been done.Even in death Hodgkiss manages to defeat the plans of greedy members of Kanundda Council who have persuaded a government minister to aid and abet them in their latest massive scam. Hodgkiss finds a way to set the plotters at each other''s throat and the scam falls apart. Tragically Hodgkiss is not there to celebrate his success