James Court: 4 books

Short stories set in rural England in the late 1700s and early 1800s

Set in the 1960s, 'The Parsonage Plots' follows the antics of a group of allotment plot holders. Old Peter is set in his ways: a widow with an interest in home brewed wine and beer, and an allotment where he spends much of his time. The local riding stables provides sustenancefor his prize winning...

All Arthur ever wanted to do was run a pub. When the brewery offered him a tenacy of a run down rural inn he couldn't believe his luck. But, like the wishes granted to greedy children by fairies, Arthur soon found that there were unexpected obstacles to fulfilling his dream.... And then the body count started to rise.

The year started well in this backwater of rural Dorset, with a double wedding, but then women began to go missing, only to turn up dead. Singing brick-layers, Dean Martin lookalikes and the voluptuous village temptress ensure that life is never dull in the little village of Huntley-in-the-Bog.