Jim Green: 48 books

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.

The vicar of St Alden's Church, and chaplain to the Grand Theatre Clackley, is brutally murdered while at prayer. The police arrest a church committee member and charge him with the crime but a meeting with the vicar's widow leads Miss Tayke to the conclusion that the wrong man is in custody and she decides to prove it.

Cedric Gascoine, stage director at the Grand Theatre, is elected to the local council and shortly afterwards appointed as convener of the arts committee. His first assignment is to give a talk and presentation at the public library but what begins as a happy occasion ends in the wanton slaughter of an attendee. Miss Tayke steps in to investigate…

BBC Radio 4 in the shape of “Women’s Hour” calls and Miss Tayke, Cedric and Bunty board a train for Manchester. Hardly has her broadcast interview concluded than Miss Tayke finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery; the callous killing of a newsreader. Her intuition prompts her to the notion...

Miss Tayke receives a mysterious invitation from a knight of the realm to spend a weekend at his haunted ancestral home. He issues her with an intriguing challenge with a £5000 bounty attached; the challenge is to exorcise the ghosts that have plagued his stately house for centuries. Hardly...

A schoolgirl takes a shortcut through the church graveyard on her way home and is startled by the sudden appearance of an old man in black carrying a walking stick. The following evening the vicar sees the same old man standing beside a tombstone which this time has a dead body spread-eagled across...

Miss Tayke receives a mysterious invitation from a knight of the realm to spend a weekend at his haunted ancestral home. He issues her with an intriguing challenge with a £5000 bounty attached; the challenge is to exorcise the ghosts that have plagued his stately house for centuries. Hardly...

Miss Tayke accompanies her friends Cedric and Bunty on a cruise when they are appointed entertainment directors. No sooner has she started to catch up on her reading when one of the passengers, a young Anglican priest, is discovered brutally stabbed to death during a murder mystery evening. As there...

THIS BOOK is hopefully instructive, and is both dead-serious, and tongue-in-cheek at the same time…it contains interviews with persons regarding their first sexual experience, from all over the globe. As regards the politics of sex--We have some peculiar notions in America—We don’t hear about...

Miss Tayke receives an invitation to a Burns Night Supper at the famous Boisdale of Belgravia in the west end of London. Accompanied by Cedric and Bunty she revels in the delights of superb Scottish cuisine and entertainment but the enjoyment of the evening is cut short when the chairman drops dead...

Miss Tayke visits the January sales to purchase new curtaining but becomes involved in the investigation of a brutal murder within the store. She outwits the local CID by deploying her considerable skills in tracking down the culprit.

Six passengers board a tiny ferry on a crossing that takes only three minutes. One of them is brutally murdered on board the vessel but neither the pilot nor any of the other five passengers admit to witnessing the crime. Police officers investigating the incident are completely baffled until a chance remark from an old man leads them to the murderer and a bizarre twist to the mystery.

Collection of six murder mystery stories from the urbane to the macabre: (1) Horror story set in 1930 when hanging was the norm for convicted murderers: Nine people involved in a recent murder trial are invited to dine at a forbidding old mansion on the pretext of hearing news to their advantage....

Crime is no different, a few make a great deal of money and get to spend it. Most don't. I wasn't one of the clever or lucky ones and when I took a bullet I decided it was time to quit. A new life in a new place was what I was looking for well away from the big city. What I found was Sonny, his father and his brother. This is their story.