Frank Mitchell and Don Packham Books

Up and Down by Mat Coward released on Jan 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.

Detective Inspector Don Packham and Detective Constable Frank Mitchell investigate the death of Yvonne "Chalkie" Wood, a member of the Hollow Head Pub's darts team, after she is found bludgeoned to death during a victory celebration. Reprint.

The annual cricket match between the Comedians and the Writers is a little more eventful than usual when Bruce Lester is murdered with a baseball bat. Detective Inspector Don Packham interrogates the many suspects. Murder is a serious business. But bringing a baseball bat into a cricket pavilion — that is one unspeakable crime.

"Readers who have not yet sampled this quirky and entertaining series should be vehemently encouraged to do so, with all haste."- Booklist The fourth DI Don Packham and DC Frank Mitchell mystery. There's a body in the library. The Bath Street public library in Cowden, London, that is. The borough council wants to close it as part of a "rationalization" package. So one autumn night, militant library-lovers enter the building and begin unfurling their banners and bedrolls. The mood is full of hope and solidarity-at least, until a garroted corpse is found sitting in the librarian's office.