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Coffin, Scarcely Used

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 1 - A Flaxborough Mystery
In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like ... Read more

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In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like
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Bump in the Night

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 2 - A Flaxborough Mystery
Tuesday nights have suddenly turned quite ridiculously noisy in the country town of Chalmsbury, where the good folk are outraged at having their rest disturbed.It begins with a drinking fountain being blown to smithereens - next the statue of a local worthy loses his head, and the following week a giant glass eye is exploded. Despite the soft-soled sleuthing of cub reporter Len Leaper, the crime ... Read more

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Tuesday nights have suddenly turned quite ridiculously noisy in the country town of Chalmsbury, where the good folk are outraged at having their rest disturbed.It begins with a drinking fountain being blown to smithereens - next the statue of a local worthy loses his head, and the following week a giant glass eye is exploded. Despite the soft-soled sleuthing of cub reporter Len Leaper, the crime
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Hopjoy Was Here

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 3 - A Flaxborough Mystery
The gripping sight of four burly policemen manhandling a bath down the front path of a respectable villa isn't one the residents of Flaxborough see every day.Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright and Sergeant Love about the inhabitants of 14, Beatrice Avenue. Nice Gordon Periam, the mild-mannered tobacconist, and his rather less nice ... Read more

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The gripping sight of four burly policemen manhandling a bath down the front path of a respectable villa isn't one the residents of Flaxborough see every day.Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright and Sergeant Love about the inhabitants of 14, Beatrice Avenue. Nice Gordon Periam, the mild-mannered tobacconist, and his rather less nice
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Lonelyheart 4122

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 4 - A Flaxborough Mystery
Whatever can have happened to Lil?Flaxborough butcher Arthur Spain is worried that his sister-in-law hasn’t been in touch lately, so he pays her a visit. But Lil’s not at home, and by her porch door are a dozen bottles of curdling milk… Alarmed, he calls in the local police, D.I. Purbright and his ever-reliable Sergeant Sid Love.It transpires Lilian Bannister is the second middle-aged woman in the ... Read more

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Whatever can have happened to Lil?Flaxborough butcher Arthur Spain is worried that his sister-in-law hasn’t been in touch lately, so he pays her a visit. But Lil’s not at home, and by her porch door are a dozen bottles of curdling milk… Alarmed, he calls in the local police, D.I. Purbright and his ever-reliable Sergeant Sid Love.It transpires Lilian Bannister is the second middle-aged woman in the
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Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby?

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 12 - A Flaxborough Mystery
In Flaxborough’s posh neighbouring village, Mumblesbury, the local solicitor, Richard Daspard Loughbury, has suddenly died.Natural causes it appears, but DI Purbright and the ever-helpful Miss Lucy Teatime are taken aback by the quality of Loughbury’s art collection – including a Paul Klee, a Corot, and even a fragment of the “True Cross”.All seem to have been acquired locally and the question of ... Read more

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In Flaxborough’s posh neighbouring village, Mumblesbury, the local solicitor, Richard Daspard Loughbury, has suddenly died.Natural causes it appears, but DI Purbright and the ever-helpful Miss Lucy Teatime are taken aback by the quality of Loughbury’s art collection – including a Paul Klee, a Corot, and even a fragment of the “True Cross”.All seem to have been acquired locally and the question of
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The Flaxborough Crab

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 6 - A Flaxborough Mystery
An elderly sex-pest is at large in DI Purbright’s home town.Leaping out from behind bushes at unsuspecting females, making lewd suggestions and, when challenged, scuttling away with odd off-balance leaps, he soon earns the nickname of the ‘Flaxborough crab’. No one can identify him, and it turns out that quite a few older gentlemen have begun exhibiting over-familiar behavior around the opposite ... Read more

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An elderly sex-pest is at large in DI Purbright’s home town.Leaping out from behind bushes at unsuspecting females, making lewd suggestions and, when challenged, scuttling away with odd off-balance leaps, he soon earns the nickname of the ‘Flaxborough crab’. No one can identify him, and it turns out that quite a few older gentlemen have begun exhibiting over-familiar behavior around the opposite
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Blue Murder

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 10 - A Flaxborough Mystery
A peculiar pornographic movie has been wowing viewers in the Gulf.One of the more scurrilous English Sunday papers gets a tip-off that this exotic blue production stars respected residents of the coastal town of Flaxborough, and a team led by the well-known investigative journalist Clive Grail arrives in a Rolls Royce.Word of the looming scandal soon gets out and the town’s quixotic mayor, ... Read more

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A peculiar pornographic movie has been wowing viewers in the Gulf.One of the more scurrilous English Sunday papers gets a tip-off that this exotic blue production stars respected residents of the coastal town of Flaxborough, and a team led by the well-known investigative journalist Clive Grail arrives in a Rolls Royce.Word of the looming scandal soon gets out and the town’s quixotic mayor,
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Broomsticks Over Flaxborough

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 7 - A Flaxborough Mystery
As Miss Lucilla Teatime often remarks, there is no lack of entertainment in the delightful town of Flaxborough.What could be more wholesome than the Folklore Society’s quarterly “revels”, with dancing, a bonfire, and a quaffing bench? Well-upholstered matrons and town worthies enter most enthusiastically into the spirit. So it’s unfortunate when a younger woman, the freethinking Edna Hillyard, ... Read more

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As Miss Lucilla Teatime often remarks, there is no lack of entertainment in the delightful town of Flaxborough.What could be more wholesome than the Folklore Society’s quarterly “revels”, with dancing, a bonfire, and a quaffing bench? Well-upholstered matrons and town worthies enter most enthusiastically into the spirit. So it’s unfortunate when a younger woman, the freethinking Edna Hillyard,
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One Man's Meat

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 9 - A Flaxborough Mystery
With old-world charm and a military air, Mortimer Rothermere makes a most convincing conman.Just now he is employed by the Cultox corporation, to ensure that no breath of scandal taints the reputation of their successful pet food company near Flaxborough, as the acrimonious marriage of its unsavoury MD, David Harton and his wife Julia, threatens to boil over.But even Mortimer’s habitual sang-froid ... Read more

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With old-world charm and a military air, Mortimer Rothermere makes a most convincing conman.Just now he is employed by the Cultox corporation, to ensure that no breath of scandal taints the reputation of their successful pet food company near Flaxborough, as the acrimonious marriage of its unsavoury MD, David Harton and his wife Julia, threatens to boil over.But even Mortimer’s habitual sang-froid
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The Naked Nuns

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 8 - A Flaxborough Mystery
Flaxborough has its share of fat-cat businessmen—‘wheels’ (in US gangster parlance)...Like the brash Councillor Henry Crispin and snobbish Arnold Hatch, proprietor of the Floradora Country Club. Their bitter rivalry is well known, so when Crispin’s luxury river cruiser, the Lively Lady, is ruthlessly sunk, shortly after Hatch’s night-time shenanigans had been lit up for the world to see, no one ... Read more

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Flaxborough has its share of fat-cat businessmen—‘wheels’ (in US gangster parlance)...Like the brash Councillor Henry Crispin and snobbish Arnold Hatch, proprietor of the Floradora Country Club. Their bitter rivalry is well known, so when Crispin’s luxury river cruiser, the Lively Lady, is ruthlessly sunk, shortly after Hatch’s night-time shenanigans had been lit up for the world to see, no one
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Charity Ends at Home

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 5 - A Flaxborough Mystery
“I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.”This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection ... Read more

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“I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.”This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection
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Plaster Sinners

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 11 - A Flaxborough Mystery
Sergeant Love is a sucker for a picturesque country cottage.But he finds himself quite literally knocked out by the little bas-relief plaster cottage that’s on display at Flaxborough’s antiques auction. This pretty but rather crudely painted trinket mysteriously sells for hundreds of pounds having sparked a heated bidding war, while the Sergeant gets floored by a would-be cottage thief.So DI ... Read more

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Sergeant Love is a sucker for a picturesque country cottage.But he finds himself quite literally knocked out by the little bas-relief plaster cottage that’s on display at Flaxborough’s antiques auction. This pretty but rather crudely painted trinket mysteriously sells for hundreds of pounds having sparked a heated bidding war, while the Sergeant gets floored by a would-be cottage thief.So DI
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