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As we prepared to leave, I said to my colleagues, ‘Miss Calvert’s going away soon, lads, can I ask you all to keep an eye on her bungalow when I give you the word, just in case some burglar shows an unhealthy interest in it?’

‘Sure,’ they said. ‘So long as we can have another party when she gets back!’

‘That’s a promise,’ she beamed, hugging her nephew.

My reinforcements left in a procession of cars, doubtless rousing and puzzling the entire village, and I returned to my parked bike. Derek followed me out.

‘Thanks, Mr Rhea,’ he said. ‘Thanks for looking after Aunt Alice. It could have been nasty, eh? A real intruder?’

‘It’s all part of the job,’ I said, shaking his hand.

Constable on the Hill

Constable on the Prowl

Constable Around the Village

Constable Across the Moors

Constable in the Dale

Constable by the Sea

Constable Along the Lane

 

Portrait of the North York Moors

© Nicholas Rhea 1988
First published in Great Britain 1988
This edition 2012

ISBN 978 0 7198 0516 5 (epub)
ISBN 978 0 7198 0517 2 (mobi)
ISBN 978 0 7198 0518 9 (pdf)
ISBN 978 0 7090 3265 6 (print)

Robert Hale Limited
Clerkenwell House
Clerkenwell Green
London EC1R 0HT

www.halebooks.com

The right of Nicholas Rhea to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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