Winding Down©

By F J Shindler

Winding Down© The Doctor Goodier and Harry mysteries are stand-alone tales connected by the two main characters, Doctor Goodier and his good friend, Harry, a country Policeman with a twang to match. Written as a form of Murder-Mystery set in rural England, content is occasionally adult in nature, intent being short, light, easy reading, usually with a twist in the tail. The series will grow as more titles are added in the near future.

F J Shindler.

Acknowledgement to Tama66 for their kind permission to modify and use their cover image.

• Language: English
• Publisher: F J Shindler
• Release date: May 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005536091

F J Shindler

F J Shindler was born in Manchester, England, but subsequently lived in various parts of the country before moving abroad. He now lives in a very hilly, very rural part of the Czech Republic in an old, though charming former farmhouse.The author of the ever-expanding short story series, ‘The Doctor Goodier and Harry Mysteries’, F J Shindler’s debut full length novel is the first of twelve interrelated works in the ‘Klub Päris Fantastiline’ series. Written in adult noir fiction form, Book one, ‘The Ninth Case File’, is set in 1966 and is titled ‘Mikey’.

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About F J Shindler

Other books by F J Shindler

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgement to Tama66 for their kind permission to modify and use their cover image.

Preface

Winding Down is one of a number of short-stories in the Doctor Goodier and Harry Mysteries compilation.

An elderly recluse with strange habits is found hanged by the neck in his own home, a house that hasn't changed since its foundations were laid in Edwardian times. But was it the suicide it appears to be? Doctor Goodier's knowledge of knots comes in handy, revealing a link to a rather unusual past.

Winding Down

A Doctor Goodier and Harry Mystery

Dark wooden banisters atop dust-coated stair spindles would almost certainly have been highly polished at one time. But no longer. Hair-line cracks scoring their entire length bore evidence to the fact that the rich timbers had seen neither wax nor