Constable on View
Constable series #31
by Nicholas Rhea
UK visitors to this site will know all about Heartbeat, the long running and tremendously popular TV series
about a police constable on a rural beat in the 1960s. People in other countries might be wondering what the fuss
is all about, but before the series there was another series - of books. Read these gentle anecdotes and discover
what life was like on the Yorkshire Moors back in the 1960s.
There is something sublimely relaxing, and educational at the same
time about these books. It is true that I have loyally watched the
show since the first season, but history has even more appeal when
it is as recent as this, and yet seems a world and more away. Rhea’s
tales about times when police work was as much social work as catching
criminals have the fascination of being true (at least partly),
and he certainly has some extraordinary stories to tell. Such as
a whole forest disappearing overnight, a mysterious person who leaves
notes in houses telling the occupants that they could have been
burgled and the tragic account of a man whose family hated him so
much they refused to pay for his funeral. Rhea has an easy, storyteller
style that conjures up images of old fashioned pubs on dark evenings
while the wind howls across the moors that suits his material. There
are some useful hints to prevent burglary too - which lights would
you leave on in an empty house? Compulsive reading.
Reviews
of other titles in this series
Constable
At The Double - Constable Around the Village #3 &
Constable Across The Moors #4
Constable
Over The Stile #17
Constable
Goes to Market #
22
Constable
Along the Riverbank #24
Constable In The Wilderness #26
Constable
over the Bridge
#27
Constable
Along The Trail #28
Constable
in the Country #29
Constable
On The Coast #30
Constable
on View #31
Constable
Beats The Bounds #32
Constable
at the Fair #33
Constable
Over The Hill #35
|
The Book |
Robert
Hale |
March
2008 |
Hardback |
070908417X
/ 9780709084174 |
Historical
mystery [1960s Rural Yorkshire, England] |
AMAZON
US ||
UK |
The Reviewer |
Rachel
A Hyde |
Reviewed
2008 |
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