James Green

Jim Green

Bill Tidy

The World's First Authoritative Anthology of Authentic Beer Poetry

All the World's a Pub!

Ten disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal winter theme. Christmas Cracker: Murder Christmas Panto: Murder Christmas Axe Murders Murder Under the Mistletoe Santa Claus Murders Murder at the Sales Poisoned Valentines Murder Mystery Burns Night Supper Murder New Year's Eve Murder Mystery Pitchfork Murder Mystery

Miss Tayke Investigates Winter Murder Mysteries

1. The secret of the three little boxes; 2. Establishing the keys to a happy and successful retirement; 3. How to set goals for your new way of life; 4. Why it's never too late to learn something new; 5. Why getting up to speed in cyberspace opens up new vistas; 6. Why keeping your hand in part time can prove beneficial; 7.

How to Ensure You Have a Fulfilling and Enjoyable Third Age

Your Retirement Masterplan

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. They are escorted by a sepulchral butler into a large reception hall to await their host. The room has a log fire burning in the hearth of an enormous fireplace; food and drink abound. When the host fails to make an appearance they opt to leave the room but cannot; the only door has disappeared to be replaced by a solid steel shutter. They start to bicker, accusing one another. Suddenly a mysterious voice addresses them and transforms the gathering into a court of enquiry; an event that results in a horrendous climax to the evening. (2) 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 it. The verger has a similar experience the next night but the mayhem does not end there. Five more corpses are discovered in the graveyard; all of them the subject of brutal stabbings. The Chief Constable accompanied by senior officers from New Scotland Yard arrives on the scene to take over the investigation from the local CID. Miss Tayke is summoned to help and astonishes the police with her theory on the murders. Assisted by Cedric and Bunty she sets about tracking down the megalomaniac killer before he strikes again. (3) 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. (4) Miss Tayke and her friends Cedric and Bunty are on a visit to an arts festival in London's Canary Walk when their day out is rudely interrupted by a call on her mobile. Chief Inspector Brewster of New Scotland Yard requests her assistance on a brutal murder at Canary Walk Tower nearby. In her quickest ever investigation Miss Tayke not only tracks down the murderer in record time but discovers how he managed to flee the scene of the crime from an office with its door and windows securely locked on the inside. (5) 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 do Miss Tayke and her friends Cedric and Bunty settle in than one of the guests is murdered by an injection of potassium cyanide into his coffee at the first night dinner party. With torrential rain, fierce winds, thunder and lightning outside and horrendous screaming and ghoulish apparitions inside, Miss Tayke sets about sourcing the ghosts and tracking down the killer. (6) Miss Tayke visits Lake Windermere on a weekend trip with her theatrical friends Cedric and Bunty. They take a short cruise on a launch where a passenger drops dead of an apparent heart attack. However it transpires he was slain in a cleverly concealed and brutal attack. In Miss Tayke's most baffling case she and her friends set out to find the killer with little or nothing in the way of clues to assist them in their quest...

Macabre Murder Mysteries

27 individual stories featuring the comedic adventures of short and swarthy Ginger Harrison and his tall lanky mate Sticky Albright over a two-year sojourn in defence of king and country; the skives and the scams, the conflicts with irascible Sergeant 'Bandy' Jordan and supercilious Squadron-Leader Aljonquin Phartingail ffoulkes-Knight; the camaraderie among fellow inmates of Hut 29 in RAF Padgate. These tales are loosely based on the experiences of the author during his stint as a national serviceman during the 1950s.

Comedic Retrospectives from the National Service Years

National Service Capers

This book is DEDICATED TO: The eradication of FEAR in America-as FDR articulated: "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." In short, fear is the mother of all cancers on the body politic of America.....i.e., fear is a wall to keep the Mexicans out, and drives our insidious racism.....and the pernicious fear resulting from McCarthyism still hangs like a black cloud over and cripples America to this day, resulting in our Third World healthcare system, and Job Creation--and is the parent of the pervasive hate in America today.....to illustrate: I didn't write the following. It is a cut and paste from FACEBOOK, or some blog [would like to give credit if knew the author]--but it is so on target regarding how "fear" is driving Conservative policy in America today-i.e., is undermining America and our progress-and relegating America to a Third World country status, rather than a world leader-"Conservatives are such cowards: they are afraid of gay people getting married or serving in the military; they are afraid of bringing terrorists to super max prisons in the US from which no one has ever escaped; they are afraid of the boy scouts letting gay kids in; they are afraid of everyone voting and are constantly suppressing the vote under some bogus voter fraud theory; they are afraid of letting students vote at their universities; they are afraid of women having the right to choose; they even are afraid of women getting contraception [the real issue actually is a women's agency and control over their bodies]; they are afraid of immigration reform leading to citizenship because they are afraid of-- name whatever reason; they are afraid of mandating gun purchasers to undergo background checks for crazy people and terrorists; they are afraid of people smoking pot; they are afraid of climate change being real and contradicting their beloved Bible; they are afraid of legitimate campaign reform; they are afraid of Muslims; they are afraid of blacks; they are afraid of atheists; they are afraid of hippies; they are afraid of socialists; they are probably still afraid of monsters under their beds; they are just rank cowards and keep making things up to be afraid of."

The Republican Agenda, Today

Totally Corrupt

A simple, intelligent guide to meditation and contemplation for those dealing with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Drawing on his experience of meditation within both the Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions, as well as his own times of personal loss and bewilderment, Jim Green offers us a moving account of just how this wisdom practice can accompany each of us as we make 'the gentle pilgrimage of recovery'. He offers a thorough and practical approach to our times of personal desolation, centered on the practice of meditation, showing how we can learn to treat ourselves and each other with care and compassion. Giving Up Without Giving Up explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are.

Meditation and Depressions

Giving Up Without Giving Up

Private detective Miss Tayke and her gay sidekicks Cedric and Bunty become embroiled in six theatrical murder mysteries. The doyen among women sleuths unmasks a miscellany of fiendish murderers in these absorbing traditional British short read murder mysteries. - Grand Theatre Reopening Murder - Ides of March Murder Mystery - Christmas Cracker Murder - Christmas Panto Murder - Curtain Call Murder - Backstage Murder Mystery

Six Theatrical Murder Mysteries

Six disparate murder mysteries in the ever-popular Miss Tayke Investigates series; each story with a seasonal autumn theme. Women's Institute Murder Mystery Halloween Party Murder Mystery Graveyard Murders Tennis Club Murder Mystery Orient Express Excursion Mystery Murder on Bonfire Night

Miss Tayke Investigates Autumnal Murder Mysteries

Dave Holmes

Why Uranium Mining and the Nuclear Industry Must be Stopped

Dollars for Death

Curl up with a glass of wine, some mince pies, and enjoy six spanking new Christmas murder mysteries in the Miss Tayke Investigates series. (1)Our intrepid sleuth sleeps through a vicious murder during the television recording of a quiz show pilot, finds herself among the suspects, and digs herself out to expose a sadistic killer. (2)An elderly professor is stabbed to death and a priceless artefact stolen from home. Miss Tayke is called in by the local police to solve the riddle of the murdered professor. She reveals the killer and the reason for the heinous crime: the theft of the first ever printed advent calendar worth millions. (3)Miss Tayke invites a group of friends home for supper after evensong at St Aidan's church on Christmas Eve. Hardly have they settled down in her tiny living room than a group of carol singers arrive at the door. They too are invited in and soon the cottage is overcrowded with guests spilling over into the hallway and kitchen area. In the midst of the festive merriment a guest is poisoned. With twenty-one people assembled in her tiny living room she unmasks the killer and exposes a strange love triangle. (4)Miss Tayke treats herself to an early Christmas present; a five-day festive excursion on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. She befriends a professor of archaeology who mysteriously vanishes into thin air after the train leaves France. . Was the professor abducted, was he murdered, and if so, where is the body? In a nail-biting finale she solves the riddle of the missing lecturer and unmasks the sneak thieves as the train hurtles on towards Venice... (5)Canon Southgate, the vicar of St Aidan's Anglican Church throws a Christmas luncheon party for key parishioners t during which Bransby Updike MP is stabbed through the heart with an icicle. The police are summoned and in the frame for murder are three highly respected guests; the lord lieutenant of the county, the mayor, and the local wine merchant. Miss Tayke disagrees with how the investigation is being handled and when the chief CID officer takes ill, she takes over. Sifting through a labyrinth of conflicting strands of evidence, she exposes the killer in a nail biting climax. (6)On Boxing Day a car ferrying Miss Tayke and her friends breaks down in a violent storm. They abandon the vehicle and make their way in the swirling snow up a steep hill to a sinister looking old mansion where they are admitted by a melancholic butler. The kindly owner welcomes them to take shelter and stay for lunch. However the weather deteriorates further and they are obliged to remain and endure a bizarre and terrifying overnight stay among a strange set of guests. At intervals during the night three of the guests are electrocuted by a maniac. It is impossible to contact the police because the storm has wrecked the landline and all mobiles are equally neutralised. Miss Tayke conducts her own investigation and exposes the most unlikely psychopath before dawn - and another brutal slaying...

Miss Tayke Investigates

Six Christmas Murder Mysteries

This title is full of practical hints about handling tax, approaching potential funders and finding suitable premises.

Jim Green

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