Boredom’s dangerous. The shipwreck is all over the TV news. And Danny Lancaster - former paratrooper turned private investigator - is pretty sure anything washed ashore is fair game. So when the giant cargo ship Margherita sheds her containers in a Channel storm Danny and his mates go beachcombing. Down on a storm-lashed beach it’s like Aladdin’s cave. The stuff is only going to get ruined so, what the hell, finders-keepers. Insurance pays out, no one dies. But among the mangled containers...

Big Eddie Archer is throwing a celebrity party for the reopening of The Bellerophon public house. When singer Paul Toopen, star of TV reality show Dreamboat, goes missing there is only one man the pub’s guv’nor can call on.But Danny Lancaster is off his game after overdoing Eddie’s free hospitality at last night’s dress rehearsal. Fans besiege the pub and the media are everywhere. This could be a public relations disaster but Eddie reckons if Danny can crack the case before closing ...

Former paratrooper Danny Lancaster is getting nowhere fast in the detective business but he’s convinced something will turn up. It does, in the breathtaking shape of the widowed Countess Camilla D’Allessi. But Camilla’s “simple” surveillance job leads Danny to a gruesome discovery at the remote Cornish farmhouse of music legend Mickey “Tattoo” Carpenter. A young girl is dead from a drug overdose, another lies in a coma. Someone is out to take revenge on the dino...

When Danny Lancaster gets a call from an old friend it looks like a chance to swap work and women worries in Brighton for a sunshine reunion.Danny hasn’t seen Pogo since they fought together in Afghanistan. They have war stories to retell, beers to drink.But Pogo is broke, sick and in serious trouble. It started in Gibraltar smuggling cigarettes to pay his debts. Now his Russian boss has taken on a dangerous job for a mysterious businessman. A priceless package must be smuggl...

Big Eddie Archer is throwing a celebrity party for the reopening of The Bellerophon public house.When singer Paul Toopen, star of TV reality show Dreamboat, goes missing there is only one man the pub's guv'nor can call on.But Danny Lancaster is off his game after overdoing Eddie's free hospitality at last night's dress rehearsal.Fans besiege the pub and the media are everywhere. This could be a public relations disaster but Eddie reckons if Danny can crack the case bef...

Marion Carter wants her husband back. He won the Lottery, then vanished. Jessie Shafto, a young girl far from home, is looking for her lost love. For Danny Lancaster, wounded Afghanistan veteran turned private investigator, it’s two easy missing person jobs, and the money’s good. But it’s never that simple. Two people have travelled halfway across the world in the hunt for the Demon’s Eye and the secret of Kaapse Kobra. They weave a dangerous web of blood ties and revenge in the search fo...

GARGOYLE PIXIE DOGWhen young homeless street artist Cat goes missing her rough sleeper friend Hooper asks private investigator Danny Lancaster to find her. But how do you trace someone with no address, job, credit cards, no social media – a woman who lives off the grid? Danny’s only clues are a faded chalk drawing on a pavement and a lost dog. But an angry man is losing control. A frightened man is running for a train. Then an early morning walker finds a girl’s bo...

This is the war diary of Sergeant Leslie Todd of the 90th (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, TA, from the Battle of Normandy in 1944, through Belgium and Holland to the end of their war near Hamburg, Germany.

The 17-minute flight ended in tragedy when the training aircraft spun into the ground, killing a World War Two veteran and a young pupil who might have become the first woman to gain her RAF pilot’s wings. Barbara Gubbins made her first solo flight at the age of 17 after 5½ hours flying and gained her private pilot’s licence soon after. Dubbed the “Pigtail Pilot” in a newspaper photo caption, Barbara paid for her flying by picking fruit and giving horse riding lessons. ...

Fred Gubbins’s war was overshadowed by the big bloody battles of The Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele.A country boy born in the reign of Queen Victoria, Fred became a farm worker and later a gardener on a country estate before volunteering in the First World War.He survived the sinking of the troopship Transylvania in a U-boat attack and marched with General Allenby’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force through the Holy Land to capture Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks.On Dec...

Danny Lancaster has been missing since the fishing boat Rickyback exploded outside Brighton Marina. The evidence pointed to his violent death and police are winding down their inquiry but Wanda Lovejoy continues her one-woman campaign to find the truth.She told one newspaper, ‘Danny served his country. There are scars, on his skin and under it. Despite what they say he’s a decent guy with a good heart. Danny deserves his justice.’Half a world away an evil man kept alive by ...

Virtual selling is here now, and it is here to stay. Going forward virtual selling will remain a big part of any business success equation. Clients who rarely agreed to a virtual sales meeting before Covid have quickly become comfortable with it. It will become far easier to get a virtual sales appointment vs face to face meetings. For that reason alone, you must quickly sharpen your virtual selling skills. In short, strike while the iron is hot. Why? It will be difficult to get a job in s...