Michael Chaplin
Author
Language
English
Description
When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain for something that would anchor him to it, make him feel at home. Then, one Saturday afternoon, it came: the roar of a crowd, and a football team to support. Young Michael became an avid Newcastle United fan, and has remained one—if sometimes disenchanted—for over sixty years.
In this football memoir with a difference, the celebrated playwright...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Andy Dalziel and his sidekick Peter Pascoe are back to solve more murder mysteries in this thrilling new season of Dalziel and Pascoe. The crime-busting duo investigates the killing of a child that revives memories of a similar crime 15 years ago, the death of a young man at a rave club and the wrongful conviction of a woman for murder back in 1963. In the final episode, Dalziel is part of a group held hostage in a pub, with Pascoe unaware that his...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the kind of case that even hardened coppers dread - the murder of an eight-year-old girl. The murder brings back vivid memories for Dalziel as fifteen years earlier he headed an investigation into the disappearance of another young girl from the same village - Mary, the daughter of Chloe and Walter Wulfstan. The killer was never found.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a man's body in a deserted mine shaft throws a Yorkshire mining community into turmoil as it is forced to re-live some dark events from the past.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Dalziel pays a visit to an old friend, Stella Moon, the landlady of a quiet village pub, he's shocked to find himself at the centre of an armed siege involving Stella's husband, a Falklands veteran. It's not long before armed police surround the pub, but Pascoe has little confidence in the officer in charge. He'd be a lot less happy if he knew Dalziel was one of the hostages.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
Language
English
Description
The dramatic appearance of a mysterious man at the funeral of a wealthy woman sets tongues wagging in a small Yorkshire village. As members of the grieving family squabble over her estate, they are horrified when the stranger claims to be her long-lost son.