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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!

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.

Un relato corto de Falconer con un tono más sombrío. El inspector Falconer se ve involucrado en un crimen de odio alimentado por chismes, solo para encontrarse cuestionando su propio juicio a la hora de proteger a Miriam Darling de sus perseguidores anónimos...

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:...

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.

Un racconto breve di Falconer in tono più cupo. L'ispettore Falconer viene coinvolto in un crimine d'odio alimentato dal gossip, per poi ritrovarsi a mettere in discussione il proprio giudizio quando si tratta di proteggere Miriam Darling dai suoi anonimi persecutori...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Abigail Wentworth espera con ansias su almuerzo de reencuentro con Alison Fairweather. Son viejas amigas del colegio que se reunían dos veces al año, generalmente para que Alison les contara chismes de las otras que conocieron de jóvenes, y para que Abigail se jactara de sus circunstancias "inferiores", en comparación con su propia y respetable existencia. Durante uno de esos almuerzos, sin embargo, Abigail reconoce un rostro del pasado, y a partir de ese momento, su vida se descontrola por completo...

El inspector Carmichael acompaña a sus hijastros en su ronda de dulces en Castle Farthing, mientras que el inspector Falconer domina la comisaría de Market Darley este Halloween. De hecho, es el inspector Roberts quien ha sacado la peor parte de la noche y ha sido enviado al pequeño pueblo de Carsfold, al sur de la ciudad, para una segunda entrevista con un dueño de casa, sin tener ni idea de que una explosión inexplicable no solo lo llevará de nuevo al hospital, sino que también desencadenará otro caso de asesinato para sus dos colegas. Harry Falconer es citado a un domicilio en ...

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.