Constable on the Prowl

by NicholasRhea (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  This is a humourous novel about a village policeman in North Yorkshire, based on the author's own experiences. He has to work night duties in the nearby villages and market towns, but finds it less simple than he'd expected. Farming folk are early-risers - often they have a good reason to be up late as well. There are also others engaged in dark activities that they'd rather not explain. Nicholas Rhea is the pen-name of Peter N. Walker, formerly an Inspector with the North Yorkshire Police. As Peter N. Walker he has also written Murders and Mysteries from the North York Moors , Murders and Mysteries from the Yorkshire Dales , Folk Tales from the North York Moors , Folk Stories from the Yorkshire Dales , Folk Tales from York and the Wolds and Folk Stories from the Lake District .

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.40

  Constable on the Prowl is exceptional among Nicholas Rhea's books in that it takes place entirely at night: it brings together a number of incidents, anecdotes and reflections on the theme of night-duty - which does not seem to be Constable Nick's favourite part of his job!

  Nick gets to know his colleagues, PC Alf Ventress and Sergeant Oscar Blaketon, and the local rogue with a heart of gold - Claude Jeremiah Greengrass - who we catch losing his trousers and shirt as he makes a hasty retreat down a ladder from a lady`s bedroom! There is company, high-jinks and one or two practical jokes as Nick settles into life in the warm-hearted village he will soon think of as home.

  Nicholas Rhea
  Nicholas Rhea is the pen-name of Peter N. Walker, formerly an inspector with the North Yorkshire Police, and the creator of the Constable series of books from which the Yorkshire TV series has been derived.