What Me Mr Mosley?

Ever since television's Antiques Road Show passed by that way the inhabitants of Mr Mosley's patch-the hill country of the Yorkshire-Lancashire border-have become avid collectors of bric-a-brac. And Dickie Holgate with a junk-cum-antique stall in the market-place of the little town of Bagshawe Broome is doing very well as a result. That is until Mosley spots one or two items of doubtful provenance among the chromium-plated teapots and bone-handled cutlery.<br><br>Reducing his superiors-especially Detective-Superintendent Tom Grimshaw-to a state of nervous prostration and accompanied by an admiring if uncomprehending Sergeant Beamish Mosley in his black homburg and overcoat strolls through scenes of ever-increasing comic confusion to a final satisfying denouement.<br><br>What Me Mr Mosley? is the sixth and sadly the last of John Greenwood's Inspector Mosley novels. In its humour wit and nicely judged North-of-England atmosphere this is a fitting and worthy conclusion to the series.<br><br><i>John Greenwood is the pseudonym of John Buxton Hilton writer of both the Inspector Simon Kenworthy and Inspector Thomas Brunt series.</i>