Patrick Wetenhall: 5 books

It is the summer of 1961, and Jim Sandy is the new guide at Rhodes Castle, the great ancestral home and seat of the noble Dalmane family, hereditary of St. Helens. Jim, who came down to Dorset from the town of Cockermouth in the English Lake District, loves Rhodes Castle and the countryside of Dorset,...

Eight months after his wedding Jim Sandy was finding, more or less, that marriage was indeed turning out to be the blissful experience that he had hoped it would be. There had, of course, been a few times when they had quarreled, but these petty altercations had never amounted to anything of any significance.

Jim Sandy was sitting in an armchair in the sitting-room of his fathers house in Cockermouth, and in his hands was a printed paper, headed: ANALYSIS of Boring number 5, Carrock Fell. Date of analysis: 4th March 1969. Sitting in the other armchair in the room, facing him on the other side of the hearth,...

Lord Dalmane, the Earl of Saint Helens, has died, which means that Jim Sandy is at last free to marry his sweetheart, Susan Dalmane, the Countess. But how will they meet again now that Jim no longer lives at Rhodes Castle, having been dismissed by Lord Dalmane? Susans maid, Samantha, however, has...

In the days when the town of Cockermouth still had a railway line running through it Jim Sandy came one morning to the station. He was a police cadet based at Cockermouth, but he had a plan to travel by train to London to search for a different job. That day, however, his world was turned upside down...