An Inspector Mowgley Murder Mystery
2 primary works
Book 2
The world stands at the dawn of a new Millennium, but the future holds little promise for Detective Inspector Jack Mowgley. The Special Branch officer nominally in command of a major continental ferry port is a casualty of a costly divorce and rapidly-changing attitudes in the police force. DEADLY TIDE opens with the world on the brink of a new millennium. A beachcomber finds a Hermes Birkin designer bag containing a large amount of heroin, and an even larger amount of banknotes, and two arms. Meanwhile, a cleaner on board a cross-Channel ferry boat finds a limbless and headless body in a luxury cabin. At his temporary lodgings above the Midnight Tindaloo, our hero is awoken with the grim news by his fiercely loyal assistant, drinking companion and confidante, Sergeant Catherine McCarthy. To other members of the City force, she is a strikingly attractive, clever but often prickly officer. To Mowgley she is his muse and mate Melons, but he is the only person on earth allowed her to call her that. After opening the Trunk Murder case, Mowgley and Melons find themselves following a trail across the Channel which becomes increasingly littered with dead bodies...and body parts.
Book 3
Detective Inspector John 'Jack' Mowgley grows ever more world-weary as his views on justice, duty and law enforcement become increasingly out of date. Rather than adapt to and conform with current thinking on positive policing, the dinosaur detective likes to do things his way, and consequently lurches from one crisis to the next. His fiefdom is a Continental ferry port on the south coast, but he fears he will lose control as he faces constant interference and criticism from his new boss, a very politically-correct policeman. The latest Inspector Mowgley Murder Mystery starts in a seaside caff as our hero mulls on the comparative virtues of ketchup or brown sauce on sausage sandwiches. Then his loyal assistant DS Catherine Mc Carthy arrives to report an event at the ferry port. A holidaying pensioner has suffered a heart attack after being stopped by Customs and having no explanation of why he is carrying a money belt stuffed with high denomination currency. As Mowgley and McCarthy investigate, they become involved in a series of increasingly brutal and bizarre murders on a trail which leads them from the seedier streets of Portsmouth to the hotspots of southern Spain...