Jim Green: 39 books

To her astonishment Miss Tayke receives an all-expenses-paid invitation to be guest of honour at the annual convention of the Amateur Investigative Detectives Association at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. She asks her theatrical friends Cedric and Bunty to accompany her and they all set off in high...

An exchange visit between the Chiltern and Fylde repertory players results in the sudden death of an actor onstage as the cast take a curtain call at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool. The police assume natural causes but Miss Tayke thinks otherwise and sets out to confirm her suspicions.

Miss Tayke boards the 05.40 Flying Scotsman train service from Edinburgh to London King’s Cross hoping for a relaxing four hour journey but instead finds herself embroiled in a tale of espionage and suspected sabotage. When she returns to her coach from breakfast in the dining car not only has the...

Two major areas are explored in these letters--one barely on the public Radar, the other in the headlines daily: Specifically, the establishment of “Fail-Safe” electronic voting in every jurisdiction in America; and Jobs. Regarding “fail-safe” electronic voting--visualize that Wal-Mart handed...

Another Miss Tayke murder mystery; she retires to enjoy a peaceful life in a sleepy village but finds herself embroiled in discovering who brutally murdered a young actress appearing in a local Christmas pantomime.

Disparate actors check in at the ramshackle Grand Theatre situated in North Yorkshire to begin rehearsals for a new play The Malingering Murderer to mark a new season for the Chiltern Repertory Players. Within days of getting to know one another their leader, the despotic actor manager Arbuthnot Melange...

Miss Tayke embarks on a ‘quiet day’ of meditation at All Hallows Nunnery in deepest Norfolk but hardly has she settled in when the tranquillity of the convent is shattered by the sudden and unexplained demise of a nun. The local police decree death by misadventure but Miss Tayke disagrees and...

On her return from a winter sunshine holiday in the Maldives, Miss Tayke learns that the Easter village CID urgently requires her assistance in the investigation of a series of brutal slayings perpetrated with the most unlikely of murder weapons; a pitchfork. She resists but is eventually persuaded...

Miss Tayke investigates yet another Christmas murder followed by two more in quick succession. A chance meeting in the street with a stranger prompts her to rush up to London where she confirms her suspicions leading to an arrest before the maniac strikes for a fourth time on Christmas Eve…

Miss Tayke gives a talk on criminology to members of the Women’s Institute in the picturesque little village of Chalfont St Ethelred in the Chiltern Hills. As she is closing her peroration she hears the thud of a body falling to the floor at the rear of the venue. A murder has occurred, the brutal...

Bad things come in pairs. Miss Tayke contracts a virulent chest infection and is confined to her sick bed resulting in having to miss out on the opening performance of a new play at the Grand Theatre. Just four days into the run the playwright is callously murdered by an injection of potassium cyanide...

The local vicar invites Miss Tayke, Cedric and Bunty to a bonfire event to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. After the judging of the annual pumpkin competition the winner Mrs Bumble drops dead in the tea tent from a suspected heart attack. The post-mortem however reveals that she was in fact poisoned. Bunty...

In the midst of life there is death. Cedric and Bunty discover the truth of the ancient adage when their joyous Grand Theatre reopening is shattered by the vicious murder of the leading man. In true theatrical tradition the show goes on as Miss Tayke investigates backstage. With Cedric and Bunty otherwise...

Miss Tayke and her stage director Cedric Gascoine are at loggerheads over which show to put on at the Grand during Christmas week. Cedric wins the day when he manages to persuade the BBC to televise his specially created revue. Little do either of them realise though that a brutal murder will turn out to be the main attraction.