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Major B.S. will just have to find out the hard way about the mysterious thing the British were doing on Mad Bill's Island in World War 2.Not that he cares. All he wants in this black comedy is to get off the island he was so keen to get to.This novel wraps up the Funny Capers DownUnder series.Guess who makes a surprise appearance? They would have known he was still alive if they had licked him!

This time the magician needs to make himself disappear to outwit the hitmen!The story starts in Hobart in 1974 with the opening of Australia's first legal casino.William Clarin is banking on a career in politics to prop up his sagging legal practice.But when he disappoints some gangsters who mistakingly think he's called The Magician because he can make charges go away, he has a choice to make. Fight or flight?If he legs it, he'll be turning his back on the generous public purse.William 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. This is the novella I had to write after I wrote two books that featured an old hermit living in an uncharted place known as Mad Bill's Island.The question that kept me awake at night was: how did he even come to be there?Well, now I can tell you.

THESE TWO PENSIONERS would normally be the last two people in town to worry about the former mayor being missing, especially not now when they are busy planning their trip to Ireland to retrace family roots.But when the nasty old mayor disappears, someone starts stealing local landmarks, and no-one else seems to be overly concerned, Oodles and Wish-Wash go from being unlikely octogenerian tourists to unlikely sleuths. Enter the walkie-talkies and cow-camouflage trousersBlokes on a Plane is the follow-up to the funny Lie of the Tiger in the Windy MountaIn series.Will the old men solve the crime in time to catch their plane?And will the Tasmanian Tiger start being elusive once again? If you enjoy this novel, Whitey and the Six Dwarfs (book 3), Blokes in Donegal (book 4), Blokes in the House (book 5) and Who Knew Tasmanian Tigers Eat Apples! (the series prequel) await with many of the same quirky characters.

NO-ONE BELIEVED the town drunk when he claimed an extinct animal had woken him up in a bus shelter in the middle of the night. Now he's leading a community revolt!This story is the prequel to the funny Windy Mountain series but holds up fine as a self-contained story.It offers laughs with a twist of mystery.The novel takes a satirical dig at a small town and some small-minded officials.See revenge dealt up by someone who doesn't really want to deal it!The plot takes some quirky detours and you'll meet some quirky folk.

Windy Mountain is a one-dog town because of a law The Mayor railroaded through years ago. But it's a law two old men must break.A mysterious Irishman arrives to take charge of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum, only to discover the last manager left the building in a coffin - and the owners really don't want him to succeed anyway.Enter the old men.They find real joy in upsetting The Mayor, who isn't the mayor any more but remains just as obnoxious as he was when he was the only man in town with a pooper-scooper.The Irishman has a confession of his own to make.Funny, quirky characters hide behind many corners in this growing series.

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!Whitey and the Six Dwarfs is book 3 of the Windy Mountain series but it has a story of its own.If you like it, Blokes in Donegal (book 4) awaits with the same quirky, but endearing characters.

Nobody warned the three old men that hitmen and Tasmanian Tigers were going into lockdown with them!The former mayor is not on speaking terms with the former town drunk and one of his former council employees.So when the octogenarians are forced to isolate in a small house together for three months to stay safe from the pandemic, there is bound to be friction.But while the old mayor 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 didn't even want to see again, he gets some very unpleasant surprises.Blokes in the House is book 5 in the Windy Mountain series

Three old men get more than they bargained for when they fly to Ireland, expecting to trace family history and inherit a castle.St Patrick might have been so busy chasing snakes out of the Emerald Isle that he overlooked banishing Tasmanian Tigers from Donegal.This might explain how one ends up under the kitchen sink in Book 4 of the Windy Mountain series of novels.

If Mad Bill hates visitors so much, why does he make it so hard for them to leave his island?Why would Ralph even think that would ever become a problem for him anyway?Until he is chased into the bay by an angry mob and has to swim to safety, he doesn't have any idea his life is in danger.The good news is that a passing fishing boat rescues him - but his relief turns to more despair when he learns the trawler is headed out to sea on a fishing trip, and the captain refuses to turn around.Ralph, an expectant father, is worried he might miss the rapidly approaching birth.His rising anxiety doesn't improve when he finds out who else is aboard the trawler.And when he ends up on an island ruled by a gun-toting old man, the situation calls for desperate measures.

A FUNNY, SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT ACCIDENTAL PEOPLE SMUGGLING.When a strange helicopter starts buzzing the shearing shed where he is hiding 12 illegal immigrants, Major Jeremy Billycock-Smythe jumps to the wrong conclusion.Nothing new about that for this misogynistic, racist and clueless Englishman.If Major B.S. didn't make wild assumptions, he would never have accidentally brought the wrong immigrants into the country in the first place!This is a jagged satirical novel that drips with quirky characters.

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