Swingle Matravers Series

High stakes comedy thriller in which an extremly accurate stock market forecasting device is lost and found in Dorset, England. . But by the wrong people. The villagers of Swingle Matravers who are determined to sell it to the highest bidder.  The French who created the device, the British, the Americans and South Africans all want to get their hands on it for themselves. But so do the Bharunians a backward african country that stole it from the French and then lost it whilst their Embassy driver was on a secret errand visiting Dorset.   The security services of some of the most powerful countries in the world descend on the Dorset village of Swingle Matravers trying to find the device and mayhem ensues.    But will the local Committee for Wealth (staffed by villagers) let them have it or succeed in selling it to the highest bidder?  Playing one country off against another.  A startling twist ending to the story surprises everybody including the villagers themselves.  The story starts as the villagers on a wild and windy night are trying to emulate their smuggling ancestors by plundering a coastal vessel, tramp steamer, that is stranded on Dancing Ledge on a wild and windy night in the millenium year 2000.  Thwarting the local coastguard in the process.   Join the story as they make their perilous journey in a Land Rover along the unmade grass and rock track,  as they career along in the pitch darkness and pouring rain towards Dancing Ledge. An actual location on the coast line of Dorset.  ----------- Lottery Mania, available here, introduced the villagers and this story continues the comic saga of ther adventures. Cocking a snook at the wider world and feathering their own nests in the process. Or trying to.  Sit back, draw the curtains and read about their continued battle against authority and law and order in this new David versus Goliath tale of robbing the rich to help the poor.  Filling their own money chests into the bargain!   Buy now and enjoy!

A tale of buried treasure, medieval monks, a ruined Abbey. Supernatural goings-on in the small hours of a ruined monastery.  All in the lawless Border Reivers area between Scotland and England at Melrose,  UK where historically cutthroats and thieves have operated since medieval times and buried their ill-gotten booty wherever they can, to avoid getting caught.      The villagers of Swingle Matravers Dorset England forever on the lookout for money and wealth of all kinds to feather their own nests and help, Robin Hood-style, the rural poor of their village, get to hear of a fabulous fortune in buried coin, diamonds, trinkets plus other items from the middle ages and supposedly buried in a casket in a ruined abbey some 300 miles north of where they are in England.  Determined to get their hands on this fortune, the villagers "Committee for Wealth of Swingle Matravers" decide to go North in a search for the treasure. But they are not the only ones on the hunt for treasure.  A group from Melrose where the abbey is have got hold of the story and the police are very suspicious of all this midnight activity too.      The treasure hunters from Swingle Matravers Dorset get entangled in a wild 'goose chase, going from the Abbey to a Golf Course at midnight, and ending at the Royal Yacht Britannia moored at Leith Docks in Edinburgh in their increasingly desperate search for the treasure.    Will the group of local villagers comprising a pig farmer, butcher, pharmacist, masseur, and teacher, and several others from the village succeed in their hapless quest. Or will it all come to nothing and they return empty-handed to Dorset to report failure?     Time is short and the stakes are high.  Read on to find what happens.    Midnight on the 18th Hole is the third book in the trilogy of the adventures of the group of villagers from Swingle Matravers Dorset.  The first two,  LOTTERY MANIA and DANCING LEDGE books are still fully available on this platform and on Amazon.  Join the villagers in both books for further hilarious money making adventures.    Please note no reference to any person living or dead is intended in this book.   Both real and fictional locations are used. The moral right of the author is asserted. 

Multiple failed burglar and loughing stock of the criminal underworld Sidney Johnson finds himself heir to a fortune coutresy of his mother who dies suddenly. Can he keep hold of his legacy? Lottery Mania is a tale of greed, intrique and skulduggary.   A chase story set in the charming countryside  of Dorset England at the Midnight hour.  Let the mayhem commence! Lottery Mania is the first of a trilogy. The second book is being prepared now! ==========  Cover Design by: Mim Chadwick Design.