Bøger af Jim Green

Ten disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal summer theme. Grand Theatre Reopening Murder Murder in Flight Waldorf Astoria Murder Murder at the Nunnery Murder by Proxy Investigation from Her Sick Bed Racing Stables Murder Mystery Murder at the Nunnery Madmen Murder Mystery Loch Ness Murder Mystery

Exclusive bumper edition of the Miss Tayke Christmas murder investigations in which she consistently outwits the CID on tracking down a series of ruthless killers over the years ...plus bonus book: the original bestseller that kick started her career as a super sleuth...

Six contrasting entries in the popular "Miss Tayke Investigates" series of murder mysteries. Grand Theatre Reopening Murder Poisoned Valentine Murders BBC Radio 4 Murders Pitchfork Murders Mystery Madmen Murder Mystery Murder in the Alps

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter, there is murder afoot somewhere, and Miss Tayke is on hand to snare the killers in 36 seasonal murder mysteries...

The end of World War 11 is just six months away as a tramcar sets off on a momentous journey through thick dense fog. The crew and passengers combine to form a contrasting group of characters who find themselves lost in a wilderness, a no man's land from which there would appear to be no escape until the mystic Azur, an Indian door-to-door salesman guides them to a safe celestial haven. The comedy throughout is as thick and fast as the fog outside which enshrouds the tram.

Ten disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal winter theme. Christmas Cracker: Murder Christmas Panto: Murder Christmas Axe Murders Murder Under the Mistletoe Santa Claus Murders Murder at the Sales Poisoned Valentines Murder Mystery Burns Night Supper Murder New Year's Eve Murder Mystery Pitchfork Murder Mystery

Ten disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal springtime theme. Canary Wharf Tower Murder Mystery Cruise Ship Murder Flying Scotsman Murder Mystery Haunted House Murder Mystery Lake Windermere Murder Ides of March Murder Mystery Artists Colony Murders Air Force Murder Mystery Golf Club Murder Mystery BBC Radio 4 Murders

Six disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal autumn theme. Women's Institute Murder Mystery Halloween Party Murder Mystery Graveyard Murders Tennis Club Murder Mystery Orient Express Excursion Mystery Murder on Bonfire Night

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Collection of six murder mystery stories from the urbane to the macabre: (1) Horror story set in 1930 when hanging was the norm for convicted murderers: Nine people involved in a recent murder trial are invited to dine at a forbidding old mansion on the pretext of hearing news to their advantage. They are escorted by a sepulchral butler into a large reception hall to await their host. The room has a log fire burning in the hearth of an enormous fireplace; food and drink abound. When the host fails to make an appearance they opt to leave the room but cannot; the only door has disappeared to be replaced by a solid steel shutter. They start to bicker, accusing one another. Suddenly a mysterious voice addresses them and transforms the gathering into a court of enquiry; an event that results in a horrendous climax to the evening. (2) A schoolgirl takes a shortcut through the church graveyard on her way home and is startled by the sudden appearance of an old man in black carrying a walking stick. The following evening the vicar sees the same old man standing beside a tombstone which this time has a dead body spread-eagled across it. The verger has a similar experience the next night but the mayhem does not end there. Five more corpses are discovered in the graveyard; all of them the subject of brutal stabbings. The Chief Constable accompanied by senior officers from New Scotland Yard arrives on the scene to take over the investigation from the local CID. Miss Tayke is summoned to help and astonishes the police with her theory on the murders. Assisted by Cedric and Bunty she sets about tracking down the megalomaniac killer before he strikes again. (3) Six passengers board a tiny ferry on a crossing that takes only three minutes. One of them is brutally murdered on board the vessel but neither the pilot nor any of the other five passengers admit to witnessing the crime. Police officers investigating the incident are completely baffled until a chance remark from an old man leads them to the murderer. (4) Miss Tayke and her friends Cedric and Bunty are on a visit to an arts festival in London's Canary Walk when their day out is rudely interrupted by a call on her mobile. Chief Inspector Brewster of New Scotland Yard requests her assistance on a brutal murder at Canary Walk Tower nearby. In her quickest ever investigation Miss Tayke not only tracks down the murderer in record time but discovers how he managed to flee the scene of the crime from an office with its door and windows securely locked on the inside. (5) Miss Tayke receives a mysterious invitation from a knight of the realm to spend a weekend at his haunted ancestral home. He issues her with an intriguing challenge with a £5000 bounty attached; the challenge is to exorcise the ghosts that have plagued his stately house for centuries. Hardly do Miss Tayke and her friends Cedric and Bunty settle in than one of the guests is murdered by an injection of potassium cyanide into his coffee at the first night dinner party. With torrential rain, fierce winds, thunder and lightning outside and horrendous screaming and ghoulish apparitions inside, Miss Tayke sets about sourcing the ghosts and tracking down the killer. (6) Miss Tayke visits Lake Windermere on a weekend trip with her theatrical friends Cedric and Bunty. They take a short cruise on a launch where a passenger drops dead of an apparent heart attack. However it transpires he was slain in a cleverly concealed and brutal attack. In Miss Tayke's most baffling case she and her friends set out to find the killer with little or nothing in the way of clues to assist them in their quest...

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8 grisly yuletide murder mysteries featuring Miss Tayke and her comic sidekicks Cedric and Bunty as they plough their way through mayhem to expose a clutch of brutal killers: 1. Murder Under the Mistletoe 2. Santa Claus Murders 3. Graveyard Murders 4. Christmas Cracker Murder 5. Christmas Panto Murder 6. Christmas Axe Murders 7. Halloween Party Murder Mystery 8. Murder on Bonfire Night

Trilogy of books following the rollercoaster career of songbird Celia Lipton as she rises to the top of her profession through seaside theatre, radio, and talking pictures in the late 1920s - until tragedy strikes...

Montage of 12 disparate entries in the popular "Miss Tayke Investigates" series of murder mysteries. Flying Scotsman Murder Mystery Haunted House Murder Mystery Canary Wharf Tower Murder Mystery Murder from Her Sick Bed Murder in Flight Halloween Party Murder Mystery Murder on Bonfire Night Artists Colony Murders Air Force Murder Mystery Burns Night Supper Murder Mystery Her Own Arrest for Wilful Murder Ides of March Murder Mystery

THIS BOOK is hopefully instructive, and is both dead-serious, and tongue-in-cheek at the same time....We have a lot of problems with "reproduction" in America-We don't hear about elections being decided anywhere else in the civilized world over alarm that someone "gay" may get married, or have a faction that wants to force women to have children [even if they have been raped]-whether they want to or not-In Sum, how some really dumb notions about sex may cost America leadership of the free world

WE have a segment of Americans who march to the polls on election day to vote against everything Christ stood for-And yet in their delusion they claim to be Christians! The obvious question we can ask is: Why have they sealed themselves in a "bubble" and are deaf as an adder regarding the current Republican agenda? It is obvious they have not informed themselves about a Republican Party that has made a radical turn away from Christ's teachings-thus the title of this book-and the purpose of this book is to drill down on the common denominators for why these people do this-i.e., vote against tenets they claim to believe in? If one is not following the teachings of Christ, they are not a Christian! Period! That is an indisputable fact-and the current Republican agenda it antithetical to Christ's teachings!

Miss Tayke tackles 3 curious murder mysteries in rapid succession. A beautiful young heiress has several attempts made on her life on board a luxury cruise ship. Matters appear to settle down. Then a passenger is murdered followed by another, and yet another. The captain implores Miss Tayke to launch a full scale enquiry. She discovers a common link between the victims; they all had some connection to the heiress. She summons a court of inquiry and exposes an unlikely killer in a nail-biting finale... Inside her conservatory lies the dead body of Aunt Hilda, face down; bludgeoned to death by a blunt instrument. Chief Constable Rawlings enlists the assistance of Miss Tayke to track down the murderer because he doubts the ability of his own police force. She dispatches Cedric and Bunty to Boston to interview a suspect while she tackles five others herself and exposes the fiend who perpetrated the outrage in the most unlikely of scenarios... A new business venture with a sinister mission in mind opens its doors adjacent to the Grand Theatre. Days later after a visit from the police the shop closed down with all trace of its existence removed. Shortly afterwards a series of unexplained deaths occur in the village with each of the victims leaving an identical suicide note. Miss Tayke is invited to investigate...

Matinee Wednesday & Saturday is a light hearted novella depicting backstage life in the provincial theatre of the early 1950s. Steve Rawlings has just completed national service in the RAF and is back home in Manchester looking for job. He locates one; working on a pantomime at the Palace Theatre. Captivated by the glitz of his new surroundings he finds himself in quick succession compromised by a nubile nymphomaniac chorus girl and propositioned by the elderly queen who plays the pantomime dame. Try as he might he cannot avoid romantic entanglements with the female cast and rapidly earns a reputation as a serial dater which gets him into even more trouble. His only platonic relationship is with Kitty Quill, the good fairy, with whom he loses contact when the show completes its run. Onwards to London and a similar position at the Palladium, Steve catches sight of Kitty in the street one afternoon. She looks undernourished and dejected and is carrying a baby in her arms. She relates her sad story; made pregnant then dumped by the male half of the adagio act in the pantomime. Steve helps Kitty financially, pledges to come back and see her; and then promptly forgets about her plight until he reads one night in the Evening Standard of her suicide. He is consumed with guilt over breaking his promise but it is too late to make amends. Six months later he meets the adagio dancer who wronged Kitty, thumps him, and is arrested on a charge of criminal assault. A court case follows which produces a stinging twist to the tale?

The complete 12 books anthology of "Miss Tayke Investigates" from her first case as a young repertory actress to her current triumphs in retirement; Miss Tayke investigates murder in a variety of scenarios: Beginners Please: Murder Dearly Beloved: Murder Curtain Call: Murder Christmas Cracker Murder Quiet Please: Murder Christmas Axe Murders Murder at the Sales Lake Windermere Murder Cruise Ship Murder Waldorf Astoria Murder Haunted House Murder Mystery Flying Scotsman Murder Mystery

Three quick-read sports stories in the Miss Tayke Investigates series of murder mysteries; comprising golf, tennis, and horse racing. Each story is short enough to read on brief train journeys, bus rides, lounging on a deck chair or a park bench; long enough to whet your appetite for more...

This book has a dual personality....but more on that later... I recently asked a fellow football nut: Do you watch football for the outstanding talent/plays, or the violence-and he immediately said the outstanding plays-and, indeed, the NFL has some of the most gifted athletes in the world-Who can forget the miracle one-handed catch by Odell Beckham Jr., just to name one-but his talent has been silenced this year because of the game's excessive violence-a major reason for writing this book....the violence undermines, rather than enhances football, both for the quality of the game, and for the majority of fans.... In a recent KC Chiefs game-Alex Smith made a particularly long run towards the end zone, a defender grabbed him around the waist and slammed him into the ground. Sorry I don't remember the game, but was in the 2017 season. The point is that this was an obvious "unnecessary roughness"-since Smith was out of the pocket, it wasn't a "roughing the passer"-but the penalty objective is the same-the penalty is to limit injury to players-and to lose a valuable quarter back is a collective loss-minimizing their injury is infinitely magnified in maintaining the quality of football! It is possible the ref didn't see the play-no penalty was called-but it didn't add to the excitement of the game, and had Smith been injured-the game of football is diminished!

The 2012 Murder Mystery Collection comprises 6 brand new stories in the Miss Tayke Investigates series: (1) "MURDER AT THE SALES" where the intrepid amateur sleuth goes shopping for bargains and finds herself embroiled in the brutal murder of a store executive; (2) "LAKE WINDERMERE MURDER". Miss Tayke, friends Cedric and Bunty spend a relaxing weekend at a luxury hotel overlooking the lake; they meet up with an old acquaintance who drops dead over coffee. The police say natural causes; Miss Tayke says murder and sets about proving she is right. (3) "CRUISE SHIP MURDER". Cedric and Bunty land jobs with a cruise line and take Miss Tayke along for company. At a murder mystery evening with all the guests involved, one of them is stabbed to death. With no CID aboard the cruise ship it is left to Miss Tayke to unmask the killer. (4) "WALDORF ASTORIA MURDER" where Miss Tayke receives an invitation to fly to New York as guest of honour at a convention in the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Before the event gets underway though the keynote speaker is shot down in his office and Miss Tayke, Cedric and Bunty help the NYPD track down the killer. (5) "HAUNTED HOUSE MURDER MYSTERY". Miss Tayke and her friends are invited to spend the weekend at a haunted stately home where one of the guests is poisoned at dinner on the first night. Despite unremitting rain, gale force winds, thunder and lightning outside, and horrifying screams, maniacal laughter and ghoulish apparitions inside, Miss Tayke successfully brings the murderer to justice. (6) "FLYING SCOTSMAN MURDER MYSTERY". Minus her friends on this occasion Miss Tayke boards the famous early morning rail service from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross in London. The journey only takes four hours but it seems like four days to Miss Tayke as she becomes involved with a vanishing passenger, espionage, and suspected sabotage; all orchestrated by a motley gang of criminals.

Miss Tayke investigates murder in a series of 9 short mystery stories; from mayhem at a Halloween Party to proving her own innocence on a charge for wilful murder...

Sequel to "Matinee Wednesday and Saturday" this novella continues the exploits of serial dater Steve Rawlings after he leaves the theatrical profession and returns to Manchester to establish himself in a new career. He secures a position on the bottom rung of the publicity unit of a major retail store group and rapidly leapfrogs the ranks to become head of department. Along the way Steve is seduced by the formidable Miss Revlon and finds himself entangled with a rich young socialite. Out of the blue he receives a mysterious telephone call that seriously skews his comfort zone; a call that is to turn his future inside out. Steve is faced with a dilemma: should he take up an offer that would double his newly increased salary or settle for security and the prospect of continuing his meteoric rise to board level. His dilemma is intensified during a meeting with the store's recruitment supremo where he realises he has been consistently brainwashed for the past year and is now in danger of falling down a rabbit's hole from which there will be no escape if he allows himself to be sucked in and manipulated by imaginary fears and insecurities. To further complicate matters a new colleague enters Steve's life; a luscious blonde who sends his pulses soaring...

Clive Morgan, managing director of self-styled avant garde advertising agency, Morgan St Leger Ramirez, receives a telephone call late one Saturday evening inviting his agency to pitch for a twenty five million pound account. He summonses key management to a meeting on Monday morning to discuss the opportunity which has a seven day deadline attached and which if successfully realised would double the agency's turnover. The meeting proves vexatious with outbursts of brittle bickering between over-inflated egos. Morgan charges his key directors Wynona Ramirez, Jeremy St Leger and Bryan Cosgrove with the task of devising departmental outlines for subsequent development into a full scale presentation. There follows an eventful all-nighter where tensions run high with two main players going AWOL and Wynona engaging in sexual relations with agency wastrel Harry Hall. On examining the concerted outcome the following morning Clive Morgan decides that three departments have succeeded in their mission while two others are in default. He castigates chief copywriter Jumbo Sowerby for an abysmal submission and hands over the assignment to a junior; marketing services manager Dendy Thorpe-Willows who has failed to produce anything is put on one month's notice. Of the two defaulters Sowerby appears to come out best with an offer of assistance from Morgan to set up on his own whereas Thorpe-Willows embarks on a mission of revenge. Wynona treats Harry to a sample of her lavish lifestyle in the shape of afternoon tea at Claridges, which provides her with an eye opener; Bryan Cosgrove's submission was not his own work but that of his assistant. The revelation infuriates her. As presentation day looms creative director Jeremy St Leger undertakes a dry run at which the key players are flushed with feelings of impending success such is the quality of work the agency has produced. Clive Morgan, Wynona Ramirez, Jeremy St Leger and Bryan Cosgrove arrive at the client headquarters quietly confident of an agreeable outcome but are faced with a mixed reception to their pitch; most worryingly from the main man who remains a model of inscrutability throughout the proceedings. Next morning Clive Morgan receives a telephone call conveying the thumbs down on their presentation and an air of gloom pervades the agency. However, despair is rotated all the way back to renewed hope with a second call reneging on the decision and inviting the agency to re-present the following day. They are awarded the account and at a celebration soiree that evening Clive Morgan reveals the background to a chain of mischief and skulduggery that initially cost them the prospect of this valuable new business but in a mysterious way reopened the door to acquisition. Bryan Cosgrove becomes heavily intoxicated at the party and Wynona Ramirez takes him home to her luxurious flat. What looks like shaping up to be a happy ending and a union at last between Wynona and Bryan fails to materialise. Wynona Ramirez has other plans...

Featured in this new selection of Miss Tayke Investigates short stories: (1) "CANARY WHARF TOWER MYSTERY" in which the ace sleuth, in her quickest ever investigation, not only tracks down the murderer in record time but discovers how he managed to flee the scene of the crime from an office with its door and windows securely locked on the inside. (2) "MURDER IN FLIGHT" Miss Tayke witnesses a fracas between two passengers on a delayed flight from Birmingham to London Heathrow. Order is restored but towards the end of the in-flight meal a piercing scream is heard coming from the food preparation area. Miss Tayke investigates and discovers the dead body of a young stewardess. An onboard doctor diagnoses natural causes but the intrepid woman sleuth thinks otherwise and sets out to prove murder by poisoning. (3) "FLYING SCOTSMAN MURDER MYSTERY" Minus her two trusty accolades on this occasion Miss Tayke boards the famous early morning rail service from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross London. The journey only takes four hours but it seems like four days to Miss Tayke as she becomes involved with a vanishing passenger, espionage, and suspected sabotage; all orchestrated by a motley gang of criminals. (4) "MISS TAYKE INVESTIGATES FROM HER SICK BED" Bad things come in pairs. Miss Tayke contracts a virulent chest infection and is confined to her sick bed resulting in having to miss out on the opening performance of a new play at the Grand Theatre. Just four days into the run the playwright is callously murdered by an injection of potassium cyanide in his drink at the stalls bar during the interval. Ignoring apathy from the local CID, Miss Tayke investigates from her sick bed and snares the murderer despite being unable to visit the crime scene. (5) "MURDER AT THE SALES" where the intrepid amateur sleuth goes shopping for bargains and finds herself embroiled in the brutal murder of a store executive. (6) "CHRISTMAS AXE MURDERS" Multiple slayings by a maniacal axe murderer in a quiet village causes panic among the residents. Miss Tayke tracks down the fiend and brings him to justice.

Miss Tayke and her whimsical friends Cedric and Bunty find themselves embroiled in two disparate murder mysteries in the lead up to Christmas. The first involves the sadistic poisoning of the young fiancé of the curate of St Aidan's parish church while they are embracing under the mistletoe at a festive celebration. Hardly has Miss Tayke solved this mystery when another follows hard on its heels: a knife-crazed maniac is on the loose slaying everyone wearing a Santa Claus outfit on the high street of Easter village. Miss Tayke and her friends join forces with the police to track down the killer.

More often than not, serial daters are either professional lounge lizards with finely honed pick-up techniques, or they are amateur Romeos who make a hash of their romantic pursuits through feckless inexperience. The protagonist in this story belongs in the latter category. He has the knack of attracting young women like bees to a honey pot but lacks the expertise to make anything of his multiple relationships. While he bounces aimlessly from one affair to another, his career goes up and up systematically; first as a backroom boy in the theatre and later as a thrusting advertising executive. Then one day he meets his match and finds himself back at square one...