This book was the first title in Nicholas Rhea's Constable series, which inspired the largely successful TV series Heartbeat. It is based on the author's own experience as a village constable in the North York Moors, and features the now famous lead character, Constable Nick Rowan.
Another episode in the story of the rural policeman, Nick Rowan. Part of the Constable series which inspired the largely successful TV series Heartbeat.
It was accompanied by buttered soldiers of brown bread neatly arranged on his side plate, standing to attention as he waited patiently for Millicent. In the Pluke household it was bad manners to begin a meal before everyone was seated. Millicent, who insisted on preparing Montague’s meals, was fi...
Even though this was the greatest thing that had happened in Crickledale since the vicar ran off with both the choir mistress and the contents of the parish safe forty-six years ago, the editors in distant towns felt disinclined to commit their staff to the story. It meant a long drive into the r...
Whatever had happened after he’d swapped duties with Father John was obviously preying on his conscience – so Nick decided to visit the confessional, not to confess any sins but to examine it. He would try to visualize it as it would have been on Saturday night. Could those penitents be traced? I...
‘So what is your news?’ ‘A fascinating case, Mr Pluke,’ began Meredith. ‘First, the girl’s physical appearance, you’ll need this if you’re to get her identified. White skin, five feet six inches tall, that’s 165 centimetres; taller than average. Well built, thirty-six inch bust and hips, twenty-e...
Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910 There is no doubt that families of children can lead to friendships and understanding between their respective parents and in a village community many lasting relationships have developed because parents met at school events. When our three children were too young to attend...
Hilaire Belloc, 1870–1953 The bewildering variety and massive quantity of objects which are recorded in the Found Property Register of any seaside police station is matched only by the variety and number which are recorded in the Lost Property Register. The snag is that the two registers seldom t...
On the edge of the moors where I used to patrol, some of the fields are divided by rippling brooks which we call becks or gills, other boundaries are marked by the sturdy dry-stone walls of the region, and some make use of hedgerows or even timber-and-wire fencing. There are spacious flat fields ...
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) Each of us feels entitled to a private life in which we may do as we please within the confines of our own home. If that statement sounds eminently just, the reality is not quite like that, because our private life and behaviour are regulated. For example, we must b...
She halted beside it and called Holmes’s name then blew hard on the whistle, its pitch being so high that I could not hear it. But it was Sherlock who responded with two barks; she recognized his voice and ordered him to remain on guard. He barked again in response and I had to admit his voice di...