Books by Wilkie Martin

A grieving husband can’t live with his guilt……he decides to die, not by his own hand, but in heroically helping the vulnerable.Since the peaceful Cotswold countryside offers limited opportunities for heroism, despite the presence of some weird and dangerous inhabitants, he ventures further afield.To his annoyance, new and unlikely friends mysteriously appear everywhere he goes, foiling his plans and sending him back to square one.Will he succeed or will he come to terms with his grief first? Was his wife as blame free and perfect as he thought or will lurking suspicions of infidelity be proved right?

Hobbes – Unhuman Omnibus – Books I-IVI - Inspector Hobbes and the BloodInspector Hobbes, a monstrous police detective, investigates grave, ghoulish goings-on. A mad pseudo vampire with the dagger of Vlad Tepes is behind robbery, and murder. It is a funny tale with a troll, human sacrifice, blood and great cooking.'I ought to tell you, dear, he can get rather wild when he's hungry.'II - Inspector Hobbes and the CurseAndy becomes infatuated with a dangerously beautiful woman during Hobbes's investigations into sheep deaths and the mysterious disappearance of pheasants, which are apparently connected to a rash of big cat sightings; and something horrible seems to be lurking in the woods.'Love may be on the horizon but, beware; something wicked this way comes.' III - Inspector Hobbes and the Gold DiggersUnwelcome attention after foiling an armed robbery forces the Inspector away on holiday to the dangerous Blacker Mountains, where his accident-prone friend, Andy, stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow.‘I always knew you’d get ahead one day.’IV - Inspector Hobbes and the BonesTrouble lies ahead for Andy. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Hobbes certainly believes so, and, though he's not the sort to worry, he is getting worried.‘I was grateful for having been born human.’ 

Hobbes – Unhuman Omnibus – Books I-IVI - Inspector Hobbes and the BloodInspector Hobbes, a monstrous police detective, investigates grave, ghoulish goings-on. A mad pseudo vampire with the dagger of Vlad Tepes is behind robbery, and murder. It is a funny tale with a troll, human sacrifice, blood and great cooking.'I ought to tell you, dear, he can get rather wild when he's hungry.'II - Inspector Hobbes and the CurseAndy becomes infatuated with a dangerously beautiful woman during Hobbes's investigations into sheep deaths and the mysterious disappearance of pheasants, which are apparently connected to a rash of big cat sightings; and something horrible seems to be lurking in the woods.'Love may be on the horizon but, beware; something wicked this way comes.'III - Inspector Hobbes and the Gold DiggersUnwelcome attention after foiling an armed robbery forces the Inspector away on holiday to the dangerous Blacker Mountains, where his accident-prone friend, Andy, stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow.‘I always knew you’d get ahead one day.’IV - Inspector Hobbes and the BonesTrouble lies ahead for Andy. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Hobbes certainly believes so, and, though he's not the sort to worry, he is getting worried.‘I was grateful for having been born human.’ 

A short collection of silly verse detailing the plethora of perils that come with being related to Wilkie. Containing six silly nonsence poems and two short poems giving the events leading up to the unfortunate, untimely and unlikely deaths of family members.

Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow, while Hobbes wonders why an old gold mine has reopened.On their return to the sleepy Cotswold town of Sorenchester, Hobbes is dumbfounded when Kathy, a reminder of his hippy days, turns up on the doorstep with her baggage. Since Hobbes has to solve a gold robbery and contemplate some perfectly ordinary rocks, Andy must entertain Kathy while trying to protect his new love from a monstrous opponent working for the sinister Sir Gerald Payne. Despite his usual blunderings and an inability to throw straight, Andy displays genuine courage.This is the third in Wilkie Martin’s unhuman series of comedy cosy mysteries with a dash of fantasy and lashings of good food.

While the unhuman Inspector Hobbes investigates big cat sightings, slaughtered sheep, and the mysterious disappearance of pheasants, he is accompanied by the disaster-prone Andy Caplet. When Andy falls at the feet of Violet King, a dangerously beautiful woman, it seems his luck might change, even though he throws up on her shoes. For some reason she takes a shine to him, treating him to dinner in a romantic restaurant, where everything goes brilliantly until a man's throat is torn out.Violet's millionaire brother, Felix, warns him off. Yet Felix may not be Andy's worst problem, for something nightmarish seems to be lurking in the Woods. Can Andy stand up for himself, or is he cursed to be always unlucky in love? Why is Dregs, the delinquent dog, so nervous?This is the second in Wilkie Martin’s unhuman series of comedy cosy mysteries with a dash of fantasy and lashings of good food.

Set in a small Cotswold town, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood is a fast-paced comedy crime fantasy about the adventures of Andy, an incompetent reporter, when he is reluctantly working with Inspector Hobbes, a police detective with a reputation. Andy soon finds himself immersed in a world where not everyone is human, and a late-night visit to a churchyard nearly results in grave consequences, and a ghoulish outcome. An accidental fire leads to Andy having to doss in Hobbes's spare room. Contending with a wave of murder, suicide and robbery, as well as Hobbes's weirdness, is the just the start; he must also get to grips with Mrs Goodfellow, Hobbes's housekeeper, who collects teeth. Although they are mostly from humans, she also claims to have some vampire specimens. However, Andy soon finds her wonderful cooking compensates for her eccentricities. Despite Andy believing he is coping, he is nearly unhinged by horror when a stressed Hobbes's concealed nature reveals itself in an orgy of bone-crunching.Yet, coming through unscathed, Andy develops respect and admiration for his host, even when he uses weird, occasionally brutal, methods to begin unravelling the mystery, which would appear to link The Order of the Dragon and Vlad Tepes, the original Dracula, to the crime wave. When Hobbes goes missing, Andy, with the dubious assistance of Dregs, Hobbes's big, bad dog, and armed with a leg of lamb, searches for him. Will he triumph over crazed blood lust and human sacrifice? Can Andy with Hobbes's friends, a binge-drinking dwarf and a troll who looks uncannily human, save the day? And can Andy catch vampirism from false teeth? These and other questions may be answered in Inspector Hobbes and the Blood.