Joe Sixsmith — by Reginald Hill

• 1993
• / Private Investigator
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ALL THIS AND A MATCHMAKING AUNT, TOO... It is feast or famine for ex-machinist turned private investigator Joe Sixsmith. One minute he's dozing in his office, the next he's been hired by a self-proclaimed dabbler in the dark arts to retrieve a sto...

• May-1995
• / Private Investigator
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Joe Sixsmith, quite possibly Britain's only black, balding, middle-aged, laid-off lathe operator-turned-private eye, met with deserving success in his debut last year in Blood Sympathy. His latest adventures in crime-solving land him in more trouble ...

• Sep-1997
• / Private Investigator
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A CASE OF BAD TIMING Laid-off lathe-operator-turned-private-eye Joe Sixsmith has the interesting knack of stumbling into situations that always seen to require some explanation. Like murder. Apart from the fact that he thinks they are pompous, ...

• Sep-1999
• / Private Investigator
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE Private investigator Joe Sixsmith, a former lathe operator whose skill at detection is part pure luck and part and uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, rushes into a burning cottage to save a young woman tr...

• Jun-2008
• / Private Investigator
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Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion ...