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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.The terminally corrupt Kanundda Council is desperate to prevent the ratepayers from learning the extent of council’s huge debt before the looming elections. Threats and stand-over tactics are on the table. But Hogkiss and council’s highly de...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss learns the truth of this saying when he returns to the country town of Narralong, the scene of previous adventures. This time he accompanies his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke who has to inv...
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  • A Day on the River
    Peter Sinclair
    James Connaught and William Berger meet in a rehabilitation clinic after major surgery. One day, pedalling side by side on their exercise bikes, they began talking as strangers do who think they will never meet again.William learns that James is being ruined by his high-maintenance wife, Phyllis, and James learns that William’s flourishing business is about to be destroyed by h...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss is persuaded to investigate the mysterious death of a boy at the very school which he had attended decades earlier. As his inquiries progress he becomes horrified at what he finds; blackmail, intimidation, attempted murder and final...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Four adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong visit a friend in a rented house adjacent to a council car park. When a bottle flies over the high wall surrounding the car park Hodgkiss wonders if was just someone skylarking or something more sinister. La...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Mrs Bigelow has no trouble finding someone to kill her ghastly husband. But not wishing to pay blackmail to the killer for the rest of her life she now must dispose of him. She finds a most ingenious way of doing it and looks like getting away with it ... until Hodgkiss gets on the job.A man held prisoner in an unfinished building desperately draws what he can see from his wind...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Two new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss’ daughter Esme Burke has taken a job in a political Party’s office. When a glamourous woman is picked as the Party’s new candidate over the sitting member jealousies and back-stabbing erupt, soon resulting in murder. When one of t...
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    19,76 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Hodgkiss’ daughter, Esme, and son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, present him with a puppy from the local pound their timing could not have been worse. There is open warfare between dog owners who exercise their pets off-l...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    A disgraced politician plans a complex and bizarre method of taking his own life, hoping to leave wife facing a murder charge. Hodgkiss has to make use of all his powers of imagination to make sense of the few clues left behind and demonstrate how the man managed to kill himself then make the gun disappear. When two bodies are found shot dead lying side by side in a park Inspec...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant andastute senior citizen.Apolitician who is about to be ’outed’ by the media is persuaded to disappear before he can bring disgrace on his Party. To achieve this a corrupt policeman invents a novel method of identifying a murder victim in the place of the disappe...
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    18,19 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Someone is mysteriously stealing from Kanundda Council’s new state-of-the-art electronic safes. When a particularly sensitive letter disappears from the safe of the general manager, Jan Campbell-Jones, Jan calls in Edgar Hodgkiss to solve the problem. From a few random observations Hodgkiss finds a remarkable solution that exposes a network of ingenious criminals.Hodgkiss and h...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    When Hodgkiss decides to join an exercise group run by a very attractive young woman his daughter, Esme, insists that his friend Pat Strong join the group as chaperone. Hodgkiss soon learns that the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council has plans to redevelop the park where the classes are held, plans that will greatly enrich the mayor and his cronies. But these plans are doomed...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Greedy killers think they can get away with a perfect murder by copying the story line of a famous mystery novel. But they are so utterly incompetent that Hodgkiss and son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, soon see through their ...
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.One night Hodgkiss sees a rare repeater wrist watch in an antiques shop windows, but next morning when he goes to buy it he finds, to his disappointment, that a woman had just beaten him to it.In his efforts to persuade the woman to sell...
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    15,13 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss is witness to an unpleasant scene where an outraged wife threatens her husband’s mistress in front of the diners in a crowded Chinese restaurant. When the mistress is viciously murdered the wife moves to the top of Detective Ins...
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    15,18 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss and his son-in-law Detective Donald Burke are playing a round of golf when a savage storm hits sending them running for cover. But the same storm provides the cover for a cruel opportunistic murder and Hodgkiss is soon involved....
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  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss doesn’t miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.When Ann Farley stops receiving emails from her boy friend who has travelled to Australia she decides to follow and investigate. With Hodgkiss’ help they uncover a dark pathway of murder and fraud before the killers are brought to book.W...
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    15,26 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    In these five stories all of Hodgkiss’ powers of observation are taxed to the full.When he saw the killer’s cabin cruiser returning to its berth at the marina what was it that Hodgkiss saw that convinced him the man had been involved in the theft of a number of valuable bronzes figures?Hodgkiss had never heard of a pocket call until he received one. Then from the few words he o...
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  • Hodgkiss Mysteries XV
    Peter Sinclair
    The self-styled, self-important civic leader could not afford to have any embarrassing stories surfacing or his hopes and ambitions for the future would be dashed. Now his problem is how to silence the woman councillor who has discovered his offer to pay the gambling debt of a council officer who has done him a big favour. He plans and executes an impossible murder carried out ...
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    15,14 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    Hodgkiss is researching for a book on crime in Kanundda when he reads in the local paper of a nasty outbreak of racism. But his research uncovers shocking events in his own community that mirrored the evils of the Nazi regime in the 1930s ... and two murders.Detective Inspector Donald Burke is called by panicked employees of Kanundda Council who just heard a shot in the room of...
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    15,18 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries
    Peter Sinclair
    While in hospital recovering from a bout of low blood pressure Hodgkiss takes a more-than-usual interest in the cottage next door. From a few observations made from his bedroom window he pieces together an elaborate murder plot designed to appear as suicide.Sitting in the audience during the recording of a popular quiz programme Hodgkiss notices some very odd happenings. Then w...
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    15,06 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume XII
    Peter Sinclair
    Edgar Hodgkiss is roped into opening and closing the curtains between the acts of an amateur dramatic production. But after reading the scriptHodgkiss soon decides that it has been written with murder in mind. And he is not wrong. At the climax of the unlikely plot the hero of the piece is stabbed to death while tied into a chair. The prop knife, made to retract on contact, and...
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    15,30 €

  • The Hodgkiss Mysteries Volume XIII
    Peter Sinclair
    A promiscuous government minister puts at peril the prospects of his party at the polls when a young woman who works in his office dies in his bed. When he calls two bumbling assistants to remove the inconvenient corpse things go from bad to worse. Edgar Hodgkiss, who by chance is waiting at the police station to meet his son-in-law, Detective Inspector Donald Burke, overhears ...
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  • Lesson Play in Mathematics Education
    Nathalie Sinclair / Peter Liljedahl / Rina Zazkis
    Lesson play is a novel construct in research and teachers’ professional development in mathematics education. Lesson play refers to a lesson or part of a lesson presented in dialogue form-inspired in part by Lakatos’s evocative Proofs and Refutations-featuring imagined interactions between a teacher and her/his students. We have been using and refining our use of this tool for ...
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  • Stone the Devil
    Peter Sinclair Ellis
    Stone the Devil is the story of a nuclear bomb that was manufactured as a result of religious conviction and its journey from the Afrikaner Right Wing into the hands of the Islamic state.It is a story of political intrigue and deceit, of corruption and greed, and of cruelty often inflicted in the name of God.It is a story of the machinations of the secretive Afrikaner Broederbo...
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    24,46 €

  • Inflation Expectations
    Peter J. N. Sinclair
    This collection pulls together a galaxy of world experts (including Roy Batchelor, Richard Curtin and Staffan Linden) on inflation expectations to debate different aspects of the issues involved, including the spread of inflation targeting and the large reduction in actual inflation that has been observed in most countries over the past decade or so. ...
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    88,02 €