Ambrose Millwood is found dead in his hotel bed. Detective Inspector George Washington is asked to investigate. As he starts to piece together Ambrose's life story, he comes across a number of people who believe Ambrose had a stash of embezzled money. Was one of these the murderer?The race is on to get to the money first.
"I was sitting on a bench about thirty meters from the fountain. I observed a man standing next to the fountain. He kept looking at his watch as if he was waiting for someone. Then I saw a woman approaching him from behind. She was very attractive and had a large shoulder bag over her left shoulder. He hadn't noticed her. When she got close to him, she took what looked like a shiny piece of metal pipe from her bag and held it to the back of his head. The man instantly collapsed. I did not hear a shot being fired. I now assume the shiny metal pipe must have been a gun with a silencer. The woman walked off briskly and disappeared through the Elizabeth Street exit. She was wearing a black business suit and had long blonde hair." This was reported an eye witness to Detective Inspector George Washington as he was investigating the disappearance of a prominent local businessman.This is the third book in the series of Detective George Washington's cases. As always, he uses his skills and intuition to solve the clever puzzle the blonde assassin has prepared for him.
It was getting dark. He found himself adrift in a leaky dinghy twenty-five miles off shore. He had spent much of the day bailing out water. Fortunately, they had left a bucket in the dinghy, otherwise bailing would have been impossible. He'd been drifting in a northerly direction. But, now as it was getting dark, he was feeling tired from his effort. He didn't know how much longer he would be able to keep going...In this, the second book of Detective Inspector George Washington's cases, he is spending a brief vacation in the small fishing town of Port Kennedy at the invitation of a prominent local fisherman. But everything seems to be conspiring against him catching a fish or two and enjoying a few drinks with friends.
The portrait of a prominent businessman is destroyed with acid while on exhibition at the Union Gallery. Lucy, the artist who painted it, is kidnapped. The police show concern but don't seem too eager to investigate.That's when Detective Inspector George Washington gets a call for help from a friend of the missing artist.Although these crimes are not committed on his home turf he's keen to help.He soon learns some of the local police don't welcome his presence on their patch.He teams up with a journalist who has his own reasons for wanting to find Lucy. They run into many obstacles as George follows the clues, which he knows will lead him to the kidnapped artist.Or will they?
After an unseasonable bushfire causes the evacuation of the small town of Spring Flat in the Southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, Detective Chief Inspector George Washington is called to investigate the discovery of a body in a farm shed.As he searches for clues he finds a thread that leads him to the web of a ruthless criminal gang called The Spiders.
Detective Chief Inspector George Washington is investigating the suspicious death of a prominent business man.He runs into the disgruntled widow and her avaricious children, the deceased's former lover, her untrustworthy husband, her even less trustworthy new boyfriend and his boss. Together with dissatisfied business partners all urge DCI Washington to stop his investigation.This, they insist, is a private matter.
DCI George Washington has yet another murder to investigate. So what's new? That's his job. But this one is different. There are no marks on the body to give him any clues. No poison, no shooting, no stabbing and no signs of strangulation. But as always George and his sergeant, Jackie Lee, collect all the pieces of evidence they can find and despite a number of people with false identities trying to sidetrack them with lies they persist. And there's also a lot of cash floating around. This is a challenge George enjoys.
A brilliant scientist, Dr Luke Butler, has discovered a bactericide which will eradicate the curse of the citrus growing industry: the citrus greening disease (also known as HLB)*. He fails to turn up at a press conference to announce his discovery to the world. Hours later the police find his dead body on a lonely stretch of beach south of Adelaide. DCI George Washington is on the job to find the killerDuring his investigation he runs into the Yellow Dragon Motorcycle gang, some people calling themselves the Yellow Dragon and a bunch of greedy scientists, former colleagues of the victim.But who killed Dr Luke Butler?*HLB = Huang Long Bing = Yellow Dragon Disease.
When DCI George Washington arrives at work theconstable on duty at the reception desk hands him a letter. He doesn't have time to read it because his focus is diverted to a body found in front of a hotel. It is unclear if he's dealing with a murder or suicide until he returns to his office and finally reads the letter. The anonymous writer has given him the answer: murder he said...
