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PEGGY PINCH POLICEMAN'S WIFE
the latest of Malcolm Noble's nine crime novels
Matador Paperback ISBN 9781848767867
Available 1 December 2011
Peggy Pinch, unhappily married to the village policeman, must solve a murder to save her husband’s job.
Malcolm Noble’s Timberdick Mysteries have already gained a dedicated and enthusiastic following. Now, he presents the first enthralling episode in a new series of murder stories that will be relished by existing readers and delight new audiences.
It’s 1926. In the shadow of the General Strike, a farmer's body is found on the local branchline. ScotlandYard’s investigation threatens to uncover parish scandals and gossip that will discredit PC Pinch. Peggy has no doubt; she must catch the killer within a few days, or the couple will lose their home and be driven from the village where she has lived all her life.
The Timberdick Mysteries are:
TIMBERDICK’S FIRST CASE
Matador Paperback ISBN 1-904744-33-8
Published 2004
Timberdick worked the pavements of Goodladies Road where the men had bad ideas and the girls should have known better. In 1963, the murder of a prostitute challenges more than Timbers’ detective skills. “Real people get murdered by their family and friends,” says one of the girls. “We get killed by everyone else.”
The first of the books to be published. Set in 1963, it is the third episode in the story sequence
LIKING GOOD JAZZ
Matador Paperback ISBN 1-904744-96-6
Published 2005
Searching for an abandoned infant, Timberdick learns that the father has been murdered. She can trust no-one, not even those who are close to her. Before it’s all over, she’s sure of only one thing. No place rocks like the Hoboken Arms on Tuesday night!
The second of the books to be published. Set in 1964, it is the fourth episode in the story sequence
PIGGY TUCKER’S POISON
Matador Paperback ISBN 1-904-905237-18-9
Published 2006
Timberdick is back! She’s living in the vestry and working nights in the Curiosity Shop when a stranger is murdered at the top of the stairs. Timbers is arrested but she has no time to waste in a police cell. She has a murder to solve and a bun in the oven.
The third of the books to be published. Set in 1965, it is the fifth episode in the story sequence
THE CASE OF THE DIRTY VERGER
Matador Paperback ISBN 978-1905886-319
Published 2007
It’s 1947 but there’s still no peace of Goodladies Road. Men without a war and girls without homes is a cocktail for murder. We explore Timberdick’s first nights on Goodladies Road and find clues to many of the characters that we have already met in her later cases.
The fourth of the books to be published. Set in 1947, it is the second episode in the story sequence
THE PARISH OF FRAYED ENDS
Matador Paperback ISBN: 978-1906221-799
Published 2008
When the Chief Constable asks questions about a superintendent who was buried two years ago, our street-wise detective finds that she is investigating three murders instead of one. But three suspects say that they were in bed with her favourite policeman on the night of the murder, so Timbers can see only one way forward. She sets a date for her wedding.
The fifth of the books to be published. Set in 1965, it is the sixth episode in the story sequence
MYSTERY OF CROSS WOMEN
Matador Paperback ISBN 978-1848760-929
Published 2009
In 1937, Ned Machray has been a policeman for only a few weeks when he finds his first murder but, in this prelude to the Timberdick Mysteries, he solves the case that has baffled Scotland Yard, Whitehall and the local CID.
The sixth of the books to be published. It is the first episode in the story sequence
THE CLUE OF THE CURATE’S CUSHION
Matador Paperback ISBN 978-1848763-029
Published 2010
“I’m twice the detective you’ll ever be. I already know who killed Amy Bulpit and I’m not telling you.” Ned Machray knew that she was teasing. It was all part of Timberdick’s game to teach him a lesson.
The seventh of the books to be published. It is the seventh in the story sequence.
THE CASE OF THE NAUGHTY WIFE
Matador Paperback ISBN: 978-1848764736
Published 2010
Can Glenn Miller's lost trombone be the key to Timberdick's latest murder mystery? She knows that her favourite policeman, Glenn Miller's mysterious trombone and the Chief Constable's wife were in a country pub in January 1945. Now, in 1966, they're together again. Timbers is sure that the trombone will lead to the murderer, but her every step forward is thwarted by thunder and lightning and wives who won't behave!
The latest to be published and the most recent epidsode in the saga.
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