Constable On The Coast
Constable series #32
by Nicholas Rhea
If you live in the UK it is almost impossible not to know that Heartbeat is one of ITV’s longest running
drama series ever. The man whose books inspired this neverending story is Nicholas Rhea, aka Peter N Walker, whose
long career as a rural bobby is catalogued in the pages of his equally long running Constable series of
books. This thirty-second entry chronicles PC Walker’s stint in the seaside resort of Strensford at the height of
the tourist season, as he swells the ranks of the local police. He encounters conmen, suicides, a lifeboat launch
and hoaxers, and witnesses strange things like a message for help inside a washed up bottle or children riding on
donkeys backwards and he stands in for a local magician at a tea party.
If you are thinking that none of this sounds very exciting you are
right, but that is not why millions of people read these books or
tune in to the TV show. Here is a look at life taken at a gentler
pace, and it is fascinating to read about how things were just less
than half a century ago. This perhaps makes it sounds idyllic, and
at its cosiest it does sound attractive, but there is more in here
than a gaze through rose-tinted glasses. Not all the stories are
happy, and some of them recall aspects of life in the 1960s and
before that which sound grim. Taken as a whole however, this book
is akin to a long leisurely bath and I found it easy to get hooked
on the series - both of them!
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 |
October
2006 |
Hardback |
ISBN-13:
9780709081500
ISBN-10: 0709081502 |
Historical
Crime - 1960s, Yorkshire, England |
AMAZON US
|| UK
|
The Reviewer |
Rachel
A Hyde |
Reviewed
2006 |
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