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FORMER MAYOR James Northan isn't on speaking terms with Windy Mountain's other two old men.So it comes as an unpleasant surprise for him when he is forced into sharing a house with them for three months.It's so he can stay safe from this awful pandemic (that he denies).But while he resigns himself to a future of face masks, hand-sanitiser and a life of much less luxury than he is used to in the company of two buffoons, he gets more unpleasant surprises.Never...
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When two gangsters visit barrister William Clarin, they think he's called The Magician because he can make charges go away.
But, the truth is he's only got that nickname because his hobby involves making rabbits vanish!
He has to leg it, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong in this slapstick comedy.
He finds himself out-gunned, out-muscled and out-ranked on the high seas.
He really has to pull something special out of his hat this time.
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WHEN A garden ornament goes missing, the new once-shady owners of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum get sucked into a funny whodunnit.
The clues include a skeleton, a chess set, and a concrete marsupial with a secret pouch.
Farce meets crime. Who better than two ex-cons to catch a criminal? It would be easier though if they knew who the bad guy really was!
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IRalph thinks the worst of his day is over when a fishing boat rescues him from the dangerous waters of the bay. But when the captain refuses to turn around because he is headed for sea for weeks, he goes into a panic spin.
What is he going to tell his very pregnant wife, who expects him to be there for the birth?
Wait! He doesn't have the means to get any kind of message to her!
His rising anxiety doesn't improve when he finds out who else is...
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This bundle of three novels takes you on a rollercoaster ride of humour and mystery that finally reveals a dark secret from World War 2.Most of the story occurs on an uncharted island off the east coast of Australia ruled by a cranky hermit called Mad Bill.But the series actually starts in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1974, when a lawyer legs it from angry gangsters.He makes it to the island and decides he'll be safe there.But he didn't count on so many visitors.Follow...
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Guess who makes a surprise appearance? They would have known he was still alive if they had licked him!
Major B.S. will have to find out the hard way just what the British were doing on Mad Bill's Island in World War 2.
All he really wants is to get off the island he was so keen to get to, so it's going to come as surprise.
This black comedy wraps up the Funny Capers DownUnder series.
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St Patrick might have chased all the snakes out of Ireland -- but did anyone think to rid the Emerald Isle of Tasmanian Tigers?In this comedy, three old Australian men go across the world expecting a castle in Donegal. Instead, they find much more.This novel is book 4 in the Windy Mountain series.If book 3, Whitey and the Six Dwarfs, left you wondering, this book will enlighten you. It will also make you laugh.
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Three old men hope to trace their roots and claim an inheritance in mother Ireland. Not everything goes to plan!
1. BLOKES ON A PLANE
Two old-age pensioners go from being unlikely tourists to unlikely sleuths when the former mayor disappears and someone starts stealing landmarks in Windy Mountain. These octogenarians are supposed to be planning their trip to Ireland to retrace family roots. But it's time to break out the walkie-talkies and cow-camouflage...
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IF YOU NEED TO turn teapot cosies into fashion accessories, this is the how-to book for you!
John Martin is better known these days as the writer of mystery novels with a funnybone but this is a nod to his past as a journalist.
If fashion isn't your cup of tea, perhaps rats are. Find out how those beady little eyes live on in John Martin's mind many years after he was marooned on a desert island. Or find out how Beethoven made a kerfuffle refuffle.
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