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    The Elizabeth West Mysteries
    The Elizabeth West Mysteries
    The Elizabeth West Mysteries
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    The Elizabeth West Mysteries

    By Anthony E Thorogood

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    Constable Elizabeth West, Australia's greatest export, turns up in the North of England tracking a murderer across the Yorkshire Moors. Goyt Hall is a big old country house and lying dead, in front of the fireplace, is a beautiful young girl.

    Reviews: 'I'm delighted to have found Thorogood's books. Have raced through the Jack Hamma series and presently on 6th Elizabeth West. Googled his mini biography, fascinating! He really has been around the traps, no wonder he can produce volume after volume of improbable crazy exploits with that background to draw on, although it did have me wondering if he ever had time to sleep.'

    'Not crazy like the rest of the books in the series but the book that inspired bedlam deserves to be read for itself alone. I'm the number one member of the Elizabeth West fan club so I had to read this book.'

    'The stories that inspired the craziest whodunits ever written. I love the serious but tongue in cheek style.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony E Thorogood
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370620128
    The Elizabeth West Mysteries
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    Anthony E Thorogood

    I was born in London England in 1953, which makes me a baby boomer I think. Dad ran a market stall in Woolwich’s Beresford Square selling anything and everything. A natural Cockney salesman with all the patter that goes with it but when he was told to give it up or die from the cold, we packed up shop and migrated to Australia.In my youth I always enjoyed my old Dad’s tales of his adventures in the navy in WWII and of his childhood hop picking in Kent, I got my love of storytelling from my Dad. I wrote a book on cider in 2008 after being awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel around the world and drink and research cider, the cider book sold out. I followed the success of my cider book by writing a series of madcap comic extravaganzas: Bigfoot Littlefoot & West. I followed the Bigfoot books with my Jack Hamma action adventure series starting with Shakespeare on the Roof. Then in 2015 I wrote three romantic travel adventures starting with Sex Sardines and Sauerkraut.This is the bit where I state that I am happily living the good life on our 5 acre property, on the beautiful island of Tasmania, spending my time walking, cycling, planting trees, growing vegetables and writing the odd book, very odd some people say.

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      The Elizabeth West Mysteries - Anthony E Thorogood

      The Elizabeth West Mysteries

      A Bigfoot Littlefoot & West

      Madcap Whodunit

      by Anthony E Thorogood

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      Copyright Anthony E Thorogood 1987

      Published at Smashwords

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      Thank you for downloading my ebook. Please note that this book took a lot of time and trouble to create and is subject to copyright restrictions and must not be redistributed.

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      Elizabeth West - How it all came about

      I wrote these Elizabeth West Mysteries when I was in England in the 1980's. I was living in Yorkshire at the time and entered my book A FOXTROT THROUGH INDIA into a competition, I didn't win but when I turned up at the presentation I was treated as the hero of the night and ended up eating some nice food, drinking a lot of red wine and had a London literary agent for my troubles. My agent requested a detective story with a female hero so I wrote these little stories. Years later I pulled them out, reread them and was inspired to write my madcap comic whodunit series Bigfoot Littlefoot & West. The first book in that series is Death in the Australian Outback and if you like madcap humour and satire then this is the book for you.

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      The Elizabeth West Mysteries

      Contents:

      One: Blowpipe

      Two: Femme Fatale

      Three: The Seeds of Death

      Anthony E Thorogood

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      One: Blowpipe

      As I drove along the tree lined causeway Goyt Hall, designed in 1698 by an Italian architect, with its gardens laid out along the lines of Versailles, its sculptures and marble facade, looked very impressive. It was a grand and inspiring sight, the setting perhaps for fabulous balls and royal dinners. Inside, however, on the marble floor lay an eighteen year old girl who would never get the chance to go to a fabulous ball or a royal dinner.

      I walked up the steps to the entrance and rang the bell. To my surprise neither a butler nor a maid answered the door but eighty seven year old Lady Margarite, Lord Silverstone's sister, she was hideously ugly. Upon her head she wore an old felt hat, the brim being cut away at the front. Her hair was like old and frayed rags and her wrinkled old face was covered in warts and scars. I do not like to make these notes into melodramas but I would just like to write down here that Lady Margarite reminded me more of an evil witch than anyone or anything I had ever come across before, alive or dead.

      'Yes,' she said.

      She looked me up and down with her eyes almost protruding from their sockets. I explained that I was Elizabeth West, Officer West of the Greater Manchester Constabulary (on loan from the Territory Police, Australia) and that we had been notified of a murder.

      'Yes,' she said.

      She opened the door just wide enough for me to enter and as she opened the door the first thing I noticed was that all the furniture was covered in sheets. The hall looked very gloomy, the pictures had been removed from the walls, and the windows seemed to let in but little light.

      'Horrible girl," said Lady Margarite. 'Deserved it...deserved it, yes...yes.'

      She led me up the grand staircase to the north room, the banister was covered in dust, as was the rest of the house. Outside an old oak door the old lady turned and said to me:

      'Yes...yes, no good at all.' Then she shuffled up the corridor talking to herself, 'yes...yes,' she was saying.

      I knocked on the old oak door, there was no response so I pushed the door open. As I entered the scene before my eyes was rather startling. Light seemed to enter the room from only one stained glass window, the light from that window fell upon the body that lay, as it had fallen, across the hearth of

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