Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers
by Wilkie Martin
Unhuman III
Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow, while Hobbes wonders why an old gold mine has reopened.
On their return to the sleepy Cotswold town of Sorenchester, Hobbes is dumbfounded when Kathy, a reminder of his hippy days, turns up on the doorstep with her baggage. Since Hobbes has to solve a gold robbery and contemplate some perfectly ordinary rocks, Andy must entertain Kathy while trying to protect his new love from a monstrous opponent working for the sinister Sir Gerald Payne. Despite his usual blunderings and an inability to throw straight, Andy displays genuine courage.
Can Andy survive dinner with a vampire? Can Hobbes recover the gold? And what is Kathy’s relationship to Hobbes?
This is the third in Wilkie Martin’s unhuman series of fast-paced, comedy crime fantasy adventures, with lashings of great food.
‘I always knew you’d get ahead one day.”
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Reviews
‘Inspector Hobbes is back in his greatest adventure yet!’, ‘This is best one yet!’, ‘I enjoy how silly everything is.’
Jo Ann Hakola, The Book Faerie
‘Once again I was transported into another world’, ‘This author has become one of my favorites’, ‘Have fun with this one and hope that the author writes another’
Anders Mikkelsen, Koeur’s Book Reviews Blog
‘had me giggling’, ‘Hobbes and Andy follow the Hobbes-Watson dynamic’
Carol Siewert, thebookgator blog – book reviews forevermore
‘serves well as a standalone novel’, ‘dastardly villains’
Carolyn Injoy-Hertz, carolyninjoy’s Blog Review
‘Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious and Quirky!!! Hobbes and Andy are at it again!’
Charla White, Audiobook Reviewer
Listen to Wilkie Reading Extract
Wilkie reads some extracts from Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers
1 – Andy learns about the robbery and thinks Hobbes must be involved in the strangeness
2 – Andy meets the press at 13 Blackdog Street
3 – Andy and Hobbes go camping
4 – Andy leaves the police station and meets Mrs Duckworth