The Fordhamton Trilogy Box Set

This box set contains all three parts of The Fordhamton Trilogy  completely edited and amended to mirror the paperback versions, recently published.

Part One: A Little Local Affair chronicles the effects the death of local businessman and Councillor Alan Price has on the lives of the residents of Fordhamton as they sometimes succeed and sometimes fail to pursue their sexual, economic and political ambitions. It brings to town the reluctant cockney Detective Inspector Steve Harley and his new assistant Detective Constable Miles Davis. In their own very different ways they manage to solve the identity of the culprit behind the suspicious death of Price. When Harley is recalled to London it is left to Davis to unscramble all the liaisons behind a conspiracy to defraud and arrest a surprising suspect for the arson attack on Price's factory and a spate of anti-social behaviour that hits the town.

Part Two: Return to Fordhamton. This sees the return of the unlikable acting Detective Sergeant Miles Davis. He is soon caught up in a suspected fraud and a missing Bank management trainee who keeps being returned to Fordhamton in a series of mistaken identity crimes. His attempts are also halted by a  very unusual virus carried by the local bat colony which had closed his ultimate destination Oates Hall, the Bank Training Centre. The will of one very notable Town Councillor leads to the three trustees finding out more about him, themselves and strange happenings in town. Davis has the full support of his superiors and reaches a conclusion that has everyone thinking what a great Inspector he would make, a decision not shared by the local residents.

Part Three: The Last Resort. The Mayor has the wonderful idea of banishing the award of coming third in Britains Most Boring Town contest by creating the first Fordhamton Arts Festival to be run by an eccentric and one time student rebel Jay Hwkins, drama teacher at the local school. When the stand-in at the school's production of The Real Inspector Hound is found dead at the dress rehearsal suspicion falls on Hawkins. Now acting Detective Inspector, Miles Davis tries to make sense of the various affairs that go on at school and why the American Secret Service is so involved. His last resort is to join the cast of the play to uncover all the clues. He did not understand how the owner of the local wine bar saw him as his nemesis but the conflict is resolved and Davis finally becomes a man at peace with the world having fallen in love the play's leading lady – and she with him.