Hobbes by Wilkie Martin: Unhuman Books I-IV
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Publisher Description
Enjoy a journey through the first four unhuman tales in this comedy cozy mystery fantasy omnibus:
I - Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
Inspector 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.
Tim Campbell nominee for ABR Audiobook Listener Awards 2018 for narration of the Inspector Hobbes and the Blood audiobook.
II - Inspector Hobbes and the Curse
Andy 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.
III - Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers
Unwelcome 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.
IV - Inspector Hobbes and the Bones
Certain trouble lies ahead for Andy Caplet. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Inspector Hobbes certainly believes so, and, though he's not the sort to worry, he is getting worried.
Tim Campbell Winner of Independent Audiobook Awards 2019 Fantasy and nominee for a VoiceArts Award 2018 for narration of the Inspector Hobbes and the Bones audiobook.
Customer Reviews
Wilkie Martin is magnificent
After reading all six Martin novels (Including Razor) twice, I searched far and wide for an author like him. What is he like?
He's incredibly funny, cleanly twisted, torridly inventive, & superbly hilarious. Wilkie Martin writes the most clever & dryly hilarious fantasy I've ever read. His primary Unhuman protagonist, Andy Caplett, is a clumsy, irreverent, decreasingly self-centered conscience. Inspector Hobbes is the primary Unhuman character and is supernaturally powerful, beyond unpleasant looking with character as beautiful as his looks are not. He's devious dealing with Andy, his shadow thru the stories, but in a "this is how you tweek your good buddy's nose," fashion. The Hobbes housekeeper is a mysterious and toothless gormet supreme, who hooks Andy's eternal devotion thru Huss palate. The 3 of them with various added Key characters, solve convoluted mysteries that are really quite inventive. If you've never imbibed the Humorous Fantasy Mystery, and if you've not read Wilkie Martin, you haven't, you must. If you've a funny bone in your body you will dig these books. Razor, a separate story line, isn't as humorous, though it shares some of the Hobbes peculiarities.
Also: Just as fun.