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  • Mr Finchley Discovers His England

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 1 - Classic Canning
    Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate has other plans in store…From his abduction by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley is plunged into a series of the most astonishing and extraordinary adventures.His rural adventure takes him ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Mr Finchley Takes the Road

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 3 - Classic Canning
    Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural adventures through pre-war EnglandMr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so she goes to visit her brother, while he sets out to explore the countryside and go house-hunting.While learning to handle the horse and the caravan, he encounters a variety ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mr Finchley Goes to Paris

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 2 - Classic Canning
    Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventuresAn ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm.There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some unravelling! Only when eventually back in London does he complete the proposal of marriage that ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Fly Away Paul

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 5 - Classic Canning
    How far could you go living in another’s shoes?In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother’s roots. A chance encounter and uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. But it’s not just the unnerving attentions of the adoring public that he must deal with.Seeking to regain his freedom, Paul flees the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Everyman's England

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 11 - Classic Canning
    A classic travelogue that brilliantly conjures 1930s Britain.In this series of pen-portraits of England from the 1930s, Victor Canning ‘evocatively captures the pattern and colour of English life’ (The Bookseller), from Cumbria to Cornwall. Canning’s heart-warming and humorous observations of sleepy villages, pastoral scenes and busy industries are a delightful time capsule into life in England ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Minerva Club

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 8 - Classic Canning
    The Minerva Club might look like any other London gentlemen’s club but behind its respectable and discreet façade, some of the most ambitious schemes for heists, money-making and evasion of the law are being worked out. It’s an exclusive club for criminals. Entry qualification: members must have served a prison sentence of two years minimum. Though the club’s criminal ventures don’t always go as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Victor Canning's Mr Finchley

    Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

    by Victor Canning ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Richard Griffiths ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Two BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Victor Canning’s comic novels about the exploits of a shy solicitor’s clerk, starring Richard GriffithsEdgar Finchley is middle-aged, unassuming and not in the habit of taking holidays – but in these two delightful dramatisations, he unexpectedly discovers the delights of travel as he crosses the Channel to the Continent and explores the English countryside.Mr ... Read more

    $15.01 USD

  • Fountain Inn

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 7 - Classic Canning
    What’s going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn?When her employer suddenly disappears, young Grace Kirkstall finds herself accepting a new job at a new company in the same building – an oasis of tranquillity off the streets of London.Ben and Helen Brown’s startup company’s pitch is that, for a small consideration, they will help people out of their major and minor fixes. Their first big ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Python Project

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 3 - The Rex Carver Mysteries
    The case of a missing bracelet ensnares a 1960s London PI in the edge-of-your-seat third Rex Carver mystery from the author of Doubled in Diamonds.An antique gold python bracelet, with diamonds for eyes and emeralds for scales, has been stolen from the home of its owner. The insurance company accountable for the jewelry wants it found, sharpish, and hires private investigator Rex Carver to recover ... Read more

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  • The Improvised Life of Polycarp Jarvis

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 4 - Classic Canning
    An exuberant, life-affirming novel of taking your chancesAfter a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss’ daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job. Newly emboldened, he embarks on an erratic, engaging and not always strictly legal course through life.Going from bus driver for the Red Dragon Motor Company to co ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Aberdyll Onion

    And Other Mysteries

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 9 - Classic Canning
    The collected short stories of the great Victor Canning, originally written and published in the 1950s and 1960s – full of humour, charm, and in true fashion of classic crime writing.Canning’s heart-warming vignettes and clever mysteries take us from a Welsh valley to a far-off island and across the French countryside – introducing unforgettable characters and stories along the way.Praise for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Young Man on a Bicycle

    and The Goldini Bath

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 10 - Classic Canning
    Young Paul Ashcroft has travelled to the beautiful French Riviera. His goal: to make a lot of money. His methods: more than questionable. Following his motto ‘the world owes me a living’, he steals and swindles – using what he needs for himself and passing on the rest to those less fortunate.After coming across the beautiful Villa Triton, he disguises himself as M. Durobat, a middle-aged Frenchman ... Read more

    $3.99 USD