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The Hodgkiss Mysteries

- Hodgkiss and the Repeating Watch and Other Stories

Om The Hodgkiss Mysteries

Hodgkiss doesn''t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. One night Hodgkiss sees a rare repeater wrist watch in an antiques shop windows, but next morning when he goes to buy it he finds, to his disappointment, that a woman had just beaten him to it.In his efforts to persuade the woman to sell the watch to him he finds himself in the middle of a mesh of lust, deceit and murder. While attending a garage sale Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong witness a very one-sided transaction in which an elderly lady is persuaded to sell a collection of valuable stamp albums for a derisory sum. Hodgkiss and Pat decide not to let the matter rest there and their investigation ends with an extraordinary murder. Hodgkiss takes a public service job to supplement his pension. In the course of his new duties he sees one of his fellow workers behaving in a puzzling fashion.It is not until a senior public servant is found murdered during his morning commute that Hodgkiss makes sense of what he had seen and uncovers the killer.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780645100839
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 236
  • Utgitt:
  • 26. februar 2021
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 140x216x14 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 304 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 2-4 uker
Forventet levering: 20. desember 2024
Utvidet returrett til 31. januar 2025

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Hodgkiss doesn''t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.
One night Hodgkiss sees a rare repeater wrist watch in an antiques shop windows, but next morning when he goes to buy it he finds, to his disappointment, that a woman had just beaten him to it.In his efforts to persuade the woman to sell the watch to him he finds himself in the middle of a mesh of lust, deceit and murder.
While attending a garage sale Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong witness a very one-sided transaction in which an elderly lady is persuaded to sell a collection of valuable stamp albums for a derisory sum. Hodgkiss and Pat decide not to let the matter rest there and their investigation ends with an extraordinary murder.
Hodgkiss takes a public service job to supplement his pension. In the course of his new duties he sees one of his fellow workers behaving in a puzzling fashion.It is not until a senior public servant is found murdered during his morning commute that Hodgkiss makes sense of what he had seen and uncovers the killer.

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