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Follow the exploits of the eccentric Lady Amanda Golightly and her loyal friend Hugo as they stumble upon murder and mayhem whilst navigating English country life. In Strangeways to Oldham, Amanda discovers a long-lost friend in a nursing home and promptly falls into a murder mystery. Refusing to be seen as a "silly old biddy," Amanda and Hugo dust off their sleuthing skills to outwit the police.

Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn't calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'! On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father's is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump—and stumbles upon murder as well.

Cringe with embarrassment, as Lady Amanda Golightly acts like a bad-tempered five-year-old in the face of a family crisis. Cheer her on, as she and her live-in friend at Belchester Towers, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton Crump, plan a new business venture for the old place. Join them for Christmas, then wish them luck as they embark on a trial run of their new enterprise. Then gasp at Lady Amanda's reaction (delight!) at the discovery of the body of a dead guest, found slumped on the library table, murdered FIVE TIMES!

When Marcus Willoughby is found dead at his desk in his new home, no crocodile tears are shed. His demise is even presented on air, during his pre-recorded radio show Marcus having been 'choked off' for good while in full flow. His arrival in the village had obviously caused a few already guilty hearts to beat faster, and precipitates the hasty confessions of dark deeds thought long since buried.

L'agente Carmichael accompagna i figliastri nel loro giro "dolcetto o scherzetto" a Castle Farthing, mentre l'ispettore Falconer presidia la stazione di polizia di Market Darley per questo Halloween. In realtà, è l'agente Roberts ad aver pescato la pagliuzza corta della serata ed è stato inviato nella cittadina di Carsfold, a sud del centro commerciale, per un secondo interrogatorio con un capofamiglia, senza la minima idea che un'inspiegabile esplosione non solo lo porterà di nuovo in ospedale, ma darà il via a un altro caso di omicidio per i suoi due colleghi. Harry Falconer viene ...

Abigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usually for Alison to dish the dirt on the others they had known when they were younger—and for Abigail to gloat over their 'inferior' circumstances, in comparison to her own respectable existence.

DS Carmichael is accompanying his step-sons on their 'trick or treat' rounds in Castle Farthing, while DI Falconer holds the fort at Market Darley police station this Hallowe'en. In fact, it is DC Roberts who has drawn the evening's short straw and has been dispatched to the small town of Carsfold, to the south of the market town, for a second interview with a householder, without a clue that an unexplained explosion will not only land him in hospital yet again, but kick off another case of murder for his two colleagues.

From the author of the Falconer Files and the Belchester Chronicles. A thought provoking Christmas short story. Christmas Eve has arrived and the whole world, it seems, is intent on doing the very last of the last-minute Christmas shopping. In some, the day brings out unexpected acts of kindness, where others are left unmoved. This story views the day through the eyes of a 'gentleman of the road', shuffling his way from an early morning rude awakening to a magical end as the day draws to a close.

The Falconer Files Brief Cases follows DI Harry Falconer and DS Carmichael solving murders in and around Market Darley. Each story presents a unique murder mystery with a seasonal or thematic twist.

Sebastian Snail was bored. As usual! But when his oldest and best friend Caruthers Caterpillar had ALL his boots stolen from outside his house one night, Sebastian realised that this was a job for Sebastian Snail - Private Detective. Bobby Bluebottle, the Meadow Lea policeman, is more interested in his newspaper than catching criminals, so Sebastian decides to interview any insects who might have noticed or heard something unusual. His clever mind soon works out what happened, but will he be able to catch the culprits?

On Christmas Day DI Harry Falconer and DS Davy Carmichael are summoned to a block of apartments in Market Darley, to investigate the unexplained death of a young woman whose fiancé was due to move in with her on New Year's Day.

It's nearly Christmas in Belchester and the carol singers are out in full swing. So too are the thieves! A spate of burglaries is under way and the police are baffled. When Belchester Towers becomes a target, Lady Amanda Golightly is determined to get to the bottom of it all. None of the usual criminal types in the city seem to be involved, but after a bit of lateral thinking and old chum Hugo's help, Lady Amanda is off, sniffing after a totally unsuspected scent ...

In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of the crime. DI Falconer and Acting DS Carmichael are summoned from the police headquarters in the nearby town of Market Darley and begin to uncover a web of grudges against the old man and a sea of familial connections between those who knew him.

The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods, and it appears that although she had been dead for years, nobody had ever reported her missing. DI Harry Falconer of the Market Darley police is perplexed - and not only in his working life. He has recently resumed his relationship with psychologist Dr. Honey Dubois - but while visiting a local village in the course of his investigations, unsettling memories of a former love are revived.

DI Falconer becomes involved in a gossip-fueled hate crime, only to find himself questioning his own judgement when it comes to protecting Miriam Darling from her anonymous persecutors...

The town has recently opened it's new theatre and the Town's Women's Guild is to present it's first live performances of the pantomime 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - over Christmas. DI Harry Falconer has managed to duck two days spent over the festive season in the Carmichael household by pleading other commitments, but treating the whole family, himself included, to tickets to the first performance, on Boxing Day.

A regional television programme, Get One Over, where amateurs search for and discover antiques and valuable objects in junk shops, has captured the nation’s zeitgeist and gone nationwide. The Christmas episode is to be filmed in Market Darley, and being antiques fans, Miss Emily Jarvis, and DI Falconer and DS Carmichael plan to be in town to bump into the stars of the programme. Carmichael loves the programme for its jokey narrator, but Falconer, along with a host of other viewers, hates the man’s rude and condescending commentary.

Nel villaggio di Castle Farthing, un vecchio meschino, dispettoso e scontroso viene trovato drogato e strangolato nella cucina del suo cottage, senza alcun indizio evidente sull'autore del crimine. L'ispettore Falconer e il sostituto agente Carmichael vengono convocati dalla sede della polizia nella vicina città di Market Darley e iniziano a scoprire una rete di rancori contro l'anziano e un mare di legami familiari tra coloro che lo conoscevano. Mentre il caldo di luglio continua inesorabile, gli animi si infiammano, turbando la consueta calma rurale del villaggio e il solitamente ...

El pueblo ha inaugurado recientemente su nuevo teatro y el Gremio de Mujeres del pueblo presentará su primera función en vivo, la pantomima "Jack y las habichuelas mágicas", durante la Navidad. El inspector Harry Falconer ha logrado eludir dos días festivos en casa de los Carmichael alegando otros compromisos, pero invitando a toda la familia, incluido él mismo, a comprar entradas para la primera función, el día de San Esteban. Pero parece no poder hacer nada directamente, y cuando la tragedia golpea en el primer acto, se ve catapultado de nuevo a su rol profesional con una venganza:...

Un joven y su novia deciden celebrar su primer San Valentín juntos con una acogedora noche de cócteles en casa de ella. Pero a medida que avanza la noche, los acontecimientos no salen como Malcolm Standing había planeado. A la mañana siguiente, llaman al inspector Falconer y al sargento Carmichael para intentar esclarecer lo sucedido.