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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2012
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Book List in Order: 30 titles



  • Hodgkiss and The Fatal MapHodgkiss is a cranky old sod.The continual sniping and point-scoring between him and his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, drives his daughter Esme to distraction. Hodgkiss compensates for his obnoxious treatment ...



  • Hodgkiss and The Fatal Map / Hodgkiss and the Telltale Eyes / Hodgkiss and the Unsafe SafeHodgkiss is a cranky old sod.The continual sniping and point-scoring between him and his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, drives his daughter Esme t...



  • Hodgkiss is back.The cranky old sod is still sniping at the conniving, manipulative members of Kanundda Council through his letters to the local paper, The Northern Star.Hodgiss and the Mayoral Stakes: Hodgkiss conspires with council's General Manage...



  • Hodgkiss is back.Hodgkiss and the Selwyn Bequest: Hodgkiss is never wrong ... or hardly ever. He was qute certain that the number thirteen was never used on houses in the streets of Kanundda. That would be so unlucky! But this time he was wrong and h...



  • Hodgkiss returns - sharper and crankier than ever.Hodgkiss and the Ghost of the Capsule: When he accompanies his daughter, Esme, and her husband, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, on what he fears will be a boring holiday to a Pacific island paradise,...



  • Hodgkiss is a suspicious old sod. When he hears of a dead body found in a locked room and the police have written it off as suicide, his suspicions are seriously aroused. He wins no accolades when he tells his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Bu...



  • Hodgkiss at his most imaginative, observant and obnoxious.Hodgkiss and the Mobile Phones: Hodgkiss can't resist a challenge. When he receives a threatening message on his mobile phone, although it is a wrong number, he sets out to track down the call...



  • Hodgkiss Returns.Hodgkiss Does His Duty: When he is called up for jury duty the experience is not at all what Hodgkiss had expected. One of his fellow jurors, a former tennis professional, insists upon discussing the case with Hodgkiss during breaks ...



  • Observant, imaginative, creative, aggressive ... offensive; all terms that could be readily and fairly applied to Edgar Hodgkiss as he goes about the delicate business of assisting his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Burke, solve crimes without humili...






  • Hodgkiss and the Treasures of Kanundda: When he learns that Kanundda council is planning to hold an art exhibition, Hodgkiss immediately smells a scam in the making. And he is not wrong. The exhibition is designed as a cover for two separate criminal...



  • Edgar Hodgkiss is roped into opening and closing the curtains between the acts of an amateur dramatic production. But after reading the scriptHodgkiss soon decides that it has been written with murder in mind. And he is not wrong. At the climax of th...



  • A promiscuous government minister puts at peril the prospects of his party at the polls when a young woman who works in his office dies in his bed. When he calls two bumbling assistants to remove the inconvenient corpse things go from bad to worse. E...



  • Hodgkiss is researching for a book on crime in Kanundda when he reads in the local paper of a nasty outbreak of racism. But his research uncovers shocking events in his own community that mirrored the evils of the Nazi regime in the 1930s ... and two...



  • The self-styled, self-important civic leader could not afford to have any embarrassing stories surfacing or his hopes and ambitions for the future would be dashed. Now his problem is how to silence the woman councillor who has discovered his offer to...



  • The author of popular mystery stories has made his reputation by devising imaginative ways in which a killer can leave his victim in a room with all the doors and windows locked up tight. When the author is found dead ... murdered in his own locked s...



  • While in hospital recovering from a bout of low blood pressure Hodgkiss takes a more-than-usual interest in the cottage next door. From a few observations made from his bedroom window he pieces together an elaborate murder plot designed to appear as ...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Ann Farley stops receiving emails from her boy friend who has travelled to Australia she decides to fo...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss and his son-in-law Detective Donald Burke are playing a round of golf when a savage storm hits sen...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss is witness to an unpleasant scene where an outraged wife threatens her husband's mistress in front...






  • In these five stories all of Hodgkiss' powers of observation are taxed to the full.When he saw the killer's cabin cruiser returning to its berth at the marina what was it that Hodgkiss saw that convinced him the man had been involved in the theft of ...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.One night Hodgkiss sees a rare repeater wrist watch in an antiques shop windows, but next morning when he g...



  • Someone is mysteriously stealing from Kanundda Council's new state-of-the-art electronic safes. When a particularly sensitive letter disappears from the safe of the general manager, Jan Campbell-Jones, Jan calls in Edgar Hodgkiss to solve the problem...



  • When Hodgkiss decides to join an exercise group run by a very attractive young woman his daughter, Esme, insists that his friend Pat Strong join the group as chaperone. Hodgkiss soon learns that the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council has plans to r...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Greedy killers think they can get away with a perfect murder by copying the story line of a famous mystery ...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.In this volume we see three typical Hodgkiss mysteries presented in the form of film scripts. All three hav...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant andastute senior citizen.Apolitician who is about to be 'outed' by the media is persuaded to disappear before he can bring disgrace o...



  • A disgraced politician plans a complex and bizarre method of taking his own life, hoping to leave wife facing a murder charge. Hodgkiss has to make use of all his powers of imagination to make sense of the few clues left behind and demonstrate how th...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Hodgkiss' daughter, Esme, and son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, present him with a puppy f...



  • Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.The mayor of the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council and his cronies have a massive new development planne...






  • James Connaught and William Berger meet in a rehabilitation clinic after major surgery. One day, pedalling side by side on their exercise bikes, they began talking as strangers do who think they will never meet again.William learns that James is bein...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Sinclair has published 30 books.

Peter Sinclair does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Day on the River, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Peter Sinclair, The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume 5, was published in March 2012.

No. Peter Sinclair does not write books in series.