A.B. Albert Tufnell is anxious that his fiancée, Shirley, should not take after her mother, Emma. Albert’s only defence is to go AWOL and not to turn up at church.
Category: Spencer Hare
1988
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Pack of Lies
All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.
1988
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Streuth
This is a crime story that not even Agatha Christie would have dared to write and it gets itself into such confusion that it is doomed, apparently, to perpetual motion.
1988
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Martyred Wives
Most people have heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs of 1834, but what of their wives, the women behind the men in that troubled strife? This is the story of those women.
1988
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Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.
1987
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The Matchmaker
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Yonkers, NY, has a plan. He has been a widower for long enough and now he wants to find a wife.
1986
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Man Alive
The New Year’s day sale; a window dresser has the bright idea of utilizing a special sun lamp in the display window which contains three mannequins.
1986
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Olde Tyme Music Hall
Where and When 12th July 1985 @ The Allendale Centre, Wimborne December 1986 @ The…
1986
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The House By The Lake
Maurice plans to eliminate his half-brother Colin, but Colin’s unhappy wife is also prompted to murder him. When the body is found the question arises: who is responsible?
1985
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Dear Octopus
The life of an English family shown in terms of the chatter of youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years.
1984
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Devil May Care
Trainee devil, Nicholas has been sent to Monte Carlo to lure souls for the Powers That Be. At the Hotel Splendide he meets another (higher level) trainee Virginia.
1984
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A Murder Is Announced
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s home dies Miss Marple turns up to solve the case.