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David W. Robinson
Full Series List in Order
A Sanford Third Age Club Mystery
1 - The Filey Connection (Jul-2013)2 - The I-Spy Murders (Sep-2013)
3 - A Halloween Homicide (Oct-2013)
4 - A Murder for Christmas (Nov-2013)
5 - Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend (Jan-2014)
6 - My Deadly Valentine (Feb-2014)
7 - The Chocolate Egg Murders (Feb-2014)
8 - The Summer Wedding Murder (Mar-2014)
9 - Costa del Murder (Apr-2014)
10 - Christmas Crackers (Nov-2013)
11 - Death in Distribution (Mar-2014)
12 - A Killing in the Family (Sep-2014)
13 - A Theatrical Murder (Mar-2015)
14 - Trial by Fire (Aug-2015)
15 - Peril in Palmanova (Sep-2017)
Book List in Order: 20 titles
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Flatcap's Guide to UK Holidays
- Jun-2011
- / Literary
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In Flatcap's ideal world, holidays would be spent at home. But it is not an ideal world. There is Mrs Flatcap to consider, and Mrs Flatcap likes to travel. Flatcap has been married for forty years. He therefore knows a lot about marriage, wives and b...
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The Filey Connection
- Jul-2013
- / Private Investigator
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The Filey Connection is the first in the hugely popular STAC mystery series. It's summertime, and the Sanford 3rd Age Club are living it up in the seaside town of Filey. But the hot months don't pass without problems for amateur sleuth, Joe Murray. W...
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The I-Spy Murders
- Sep-2013
- / Private Investigator
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It’s August and Gibraltar Hall hosts reality TV show I-Spy with Brenda as one of the contestants. Her Sanford 3rd Age Club friends arrive to welcome her back after a week’s stay in the house.
Inside, feelings run strong between the Housie... -
A Halloween Homicide
- Oct-2013
- / Private Investigator
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It's the end of October and the Sanford Third Age Club are on one of their outings, this time to York, with an overnight stay in the haunted Palmer Hotel.
As the witching hour approaches, things begin to happen. A valuable necklace goes miss... -
Christmas Crackers
- Nov-2013
- / Private Investigator
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Merry Murders It's Yuletide again and faced with a demanding writer, Joe, Sheila and Brenda must deliver tales of murder and mayhem. Who slaughtered Santa? Who committed a felony on a ferry, topped a teller, killed a copper and did Lee really go gunn...
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A Murder for Christmas
- Nov-2013
- / Private Investigator
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Christmas and the Sanford Third Age Club are living it up at the Regency Hotel. But on a snowy Christmas morning, there’s murder afoot, and it’s up to Joe, Sheila and Brenda to find the killer.
There are so many questions to answer. -
Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend
- Jan-2014
- / Private Investigator
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Happy New Year!
The bells ring out over the city of Lincoln, and at the Twin Spire Hotel, the Sanford 3rd Age Club celebrate with their customary enthusiasm. It’s the kind of party Joe enjoys; a Murder Mystery Weekend. A drama designed to t... -
The Chocolate Egg Murders
- Feb-2014
- / Private Investigator
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It’s Somerset for the Sanford 3rd Age Club and, at a busy charity weekend in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, Joe, Sheila and Brenda are looking forward to a relaxing time.
But along with the chocolate for the Great Egg Hunt, someone ... -
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My Deadly Valentine
- Feb-2014
- / Police Procedural
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Valentine’s Day approaches and a lonely Joe Murray has his eye on the newest member of the Sanford 3rd Age Club, Letty Hill. But when the Sanford Valentine strangler strikes for the fourth year in succession, Joe’s amorous inclinations are sidetr...
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Death in Distribution
- Mar-2014
- / Private Investigator
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They do like to be beside the seaside. With The Lazy Luncheonette under threat of redevelopment, Joe, Sheila and Brenda take time off for the STAC Easter outing to Blackpool, fun capital of the North of England. But after a scrape with a drunken lorr...
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The Summer Wedding Murder
- Mar-2014
- / Private Investigator
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Til Death Us Do Part
It was supposed to be a relaxing weekend off, attending a wedding in the Lake District, but it soon becomes a nightmare for Joe Murray. Not only has he had to shut down the Lazy Luncheonette for the weekend, but it’s in... -
Costa del Murder
- Apr-2014
- / Private Investigator
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A heart attack or not heart attack? No one is sure, but everyone agrees on one thing. Joe needs a relaxing break in the sun. Where better than Spain’s Costa del Sol?
And so to Apartmentos Ingles, where Joe, Sheila and Brenda meet the permane... -
The Haunting of Melmerby Manor
- Jun-2014
- / General Fiction
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A haunted manor house and an angry, violent spirit. It’s all in a night’s work for paranormal investigator, Lady Concepta Rand-Epping and her friends, Pete Brennan and Kevin Keeley. But when the nerve-jangling events at Melmerby Manor turn up ...
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A Killing in the Family
- Sep-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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It’s the height of summer, the days are long and hot and there’s not a cloud in the sky. But these are dark days for the relocated The Lazy Luncheonette. And then along comes Sir Douglas Ballantyne, a billionaire threatened with murder, and he w...
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A Theatrical Murder
- Mar-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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The show must go on Howling winds, driving rain, freezing temperatures. The New Year has come in with a nasty bite, but the Sanford 3rd Age Club brave the elements to visit Skegness for a performance of Hamlet, starring the granddaughter of one of t...
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Trial by Fire
- Aug-2015
- / Mystery
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A house fire on a sweltering summer morning comes as no surprise, but when a body is found in the ruins, the Sanford police soon have the prime suspect in their sights. Evidence mounts, an arrest is made, and Joe Murray is at his wits’ end before h...
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Peril in Palmanova
- Sep-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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The Sanford 3rd Age Club are headed for the sunny island of Majorca and for Joe it’s a much-needed break. Denise has been killed in a car crash and he needs some serious stress-relief.
He has sun, sand and Sangria, but all is far from well... -
The Squire's Lodge Murders
- Nov-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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The Lazy Luncheonette is in mourning for Joe. Even the draymen, who suffered the worst of his acid tongue, are in bereavement for the missing proprietor of their favourite café. While the police are hot on the trail of his killer, Sheila’s nephew,...
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Naked Murder
- Nov-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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Persistent thieving on the Sun Kissed Holiday Park forces proprietor Håkan Edström to take action. On the advice of Detective Inspector Kirsty Hinch, he calls in Joe Murray and his close friends, Sheila Riley and Brenda Jump, to investigate...