Book description
Ever since television's “Antiques Road Show” passed by that way, the
inhabitants of Mr Mosley's patch-the hill country of the
Yorkshire-Lancashire border-have become avid collectors of bric-a-brac.
And Dickie Holgate, with a junk-cum-antique stall in the market-place of
the little town of Bagshawe Broome, is doing very well as a result. That
is, until Mosley spots one or two items of doubtful provenance among the
chromium-plated teapots and bone-handled cutlery. Reducing his
superiors-especially Detective-Superintendent Tom Grimshaw-to a state of
nervous prostration, and accompanied by an admiring, if uncomprehending,
Sergeant Beamish, Mosley, in his black homburg and overcoat, strolls
through scenes of ever-increasing comic confusion to a final satisfying
denouement. What, Me, Mr Mosley? is the sixth, and sadly, the last, of
John Greenwood's Inspector Mosley novels. In its humour, wit, and nicely
judged North-of-England atmosphere, this is a fitting and worthy
conclusion to the series. John Greenwood is the pseudonym of John
Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war
service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring
in 1970 to take up full-time writing. Hilton wrote two books on language
teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer - his works include
the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt
series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series as John Greenwood.
