Shimwell S Scripts: 36 books

  "Read any good books lately?"   What is so different about the Chapter One Book Club? Why don't they exactly welcome new members? Trench surprisingly discovers that a colleague is already an existing member - so why can't he remember joining? And why doesn't he even seem to know...

Trench returns to the Riverside Hospital, but still barely remembers it. What is the reason for the severe cutbacks at the hospital? And why, for a struggling hospital, does it have one particular doctor looking after only one particular memory-loss patient? Trench begins to remember. Could...

"Access denied." Trench and Diana visit the local computer fair, The Computer Colony and start to feel its logarithm is slightly skewered. Why has the computer fair been in town for years instead of weeks? What is behind the 'Strictly No Admittance' door? Just why has The Computer...

First ever Armchair Detective two-parter: "And the man is... Mandrake." Old Tom receives an invitation to a castle that he simply cannot refuse. He has dreaded this day for a long time, but he knew it would come all the same. He knows his 'friend' from the Old Days will be...

This Christmas time, Things are not all fine. For there's trouble at Devlin's Department Store, And it all seems to centre on the first floor. Where strangely, one can hear a cuckoo chime... T'is the season to be jolly. And Old Tom must crack the case, before he can hang up his holly.

Researching an article, a puzzling pocket watch comes into Trench's possession. Why does the pocket watch stop and then mysteriously reset itself? Why does the current owner of the timepiece leave cryptic messages in the Stokeham Herald? And what is the priceless secret behind all the ticking? Old...

"A warning from Mandrake?" The Stokeham Herald is threatened with closure from a 'mystery buyer'. Trench has a deadline of only days to discover the truth. Is it a coincidence that former acquaintance, Sade Thorn now fronts Castle Holdings? Is the head of the other Stokeham leasing...

   First-ever Armchair Detective 'musical'!    Down the avenues and alleyways...    A highly addictive new drug has hit Downtown.   To investigate, Trench must infiltrate the centre of the dangerous, drug-fuelled avenues and alleyways of Downtown Stokeham.   What is this new...

Drug-induced alleyways; a closed book club; a mystery on the move; deduction: love; a forgotten village and the final Mandrake master plan... Trench and Old Tom have plenty to chat about in all six cosy mysteries from Series Four AND Five. Plus Extras - including a study of Old Tom's and Mandrake's curious past.

   A shoebox has appeared on Trench's desk at the Stokeham Herald - he has no idea of how it came to be there. Trench opens the box to reveal three wooden dolls.    Trench looks at the dolls. Two boys and a girl. Their clothes are dishevelled and bedraggled. Their wooden faces are dark...

  Here comes the choo choo train puffing down the track.   All aboard! Tickets please!  Trench and Old Tom board the newly-restored Steam Train Express, and soon become engrossed in their mystery on the move, and ponder their fellow passengers… What is so odd about the Mildred...

A missing girl... The manipulative aristicrat, Marcus Dreadbury. A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem. The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle. Stables, but with no sign of any horses. A subterranean stream. Marcus' madcap father. And a Manor-House full of surprises. Trench...

First ever Armchair Detective two-parter: "Events cast shadows before them." Old Tom, most unlike himself, is suddenly fearful of the 'Old Days'. He eagerly looks into Trench's new mystery to take his mind off his worries. The investigation takes Trench and Debsy away from...

An Armchair Detective feature-length Special “So cold. So very, very cold.” Over ninety years ago, an abandoned boy does not last the night on the bitterly cold snowy streets... Modern-day Stokeham is gripped by a relentless blizzard. Trench and Debsy struggle through the snow to...