Reverend Paltoquet Mystery series by Pat Herbert (# 1-3, 6-10)
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Overview: Pat Herbert lives in London, England and works as an administrator and receptionist at a private health clinic. She worked as PA to the Managing Director of Thomson Books before they were taken over by Penguin.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1 The Bockhampton Road Murders
Sometimes we’re not alone …. What is the dreadful secret hiding behind the front door of a small, insignificant South London terraced house? The triple killing of a man and two children back in 1896 in this very house sets in train a series of murders that occur sporadically from then on right up to the present day. But is there a connection or are they simply coincidences? The Reverend Bernard Paltoquet, the vicar of the local parish, and his friends Dr Robbie MacTavish and Dorothy Plunkett, an experienced clairvoyant, are determined to findout. Slowly they piece together the puzzle and, as they do so, begin to unlock the mystery that has kept 57 Bockhampton Road in the grip of an unidentifiable evil influence for so many years..
2 Haunted Christmas
The Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and his new friend Dr Robbie MacTavish go on a tour of Europe shortly after the war and encounter a mystery in a Bergen forest.
Just why are the ghosts of two little children haunting a fir tree there and just how can the two friends help uncover the mystery surrounding their deaths?
The following Christmas that very tree turns up in the village hall and the ghosts of the children with it. It seems they will not rest until their murderer has been brought to justice and only Bernard and Robbie can help. But, as luck would have it, a new patient of the doctor, Dorothy Plunkett, turns out to be a clairvoyant, and so they set about solving the mystery together.
It is Christmas 1948: the village hall is celebrating, but the ghosts of two little children are haunting the Christmas tree and their restless spirits cast a cloud over proceedings…
3 The Possession of November Jones
The Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and Dr Robbie MacTavish, together with their mutual friend, medium and clairvoyant Dorothy Plunkett, are drawn into the lives of a family whose tragic story is traced back to violent events that took place back in the London of 1887.
November (Nova) Jones, a pretty but troubled twenty-year-old, enters the lives of Robbie and Bernard in the winter of 1962 when she seeks medical advice from the former and spiritual guidance from the latter. An unlikely bond develops between Bernard and Nova, which sees the meek vicar of the parish of St Stephen’s the unlikely object of desire of two females, the other being his old friend Dorothy.
Against this backdrop enters an old lady looking for her roots, a quest that unites her with a cousin she never knew she had and a close friend she only meets a few months before that friend dies.
Another important player in this story is a rather unsavoury character called Ted who is also searching for his roots, as well as for a grandchild he has never met.
The story begins back in late Victorian London with the fortunes of two young prostitutes who share the house of a well-to-do toff, Edward Moreland, who goes around saving fallen women. The trouble is both these women have babies – one by his brother Charles, and the other by Edward himself. These complications unravel in a dramatic way which lead, eventually, to the denouement of the story in 1962.
November Jones eventually learns why she is being possessed by a spirit in the big house in Wandsworth she shares with her boyfriend and two other couples, and how this links to the past history of the house and the eventual uncovering of events that took place there nearly a hundred years ago.
Meanwhile Bernard Paltoquet dithers between the two women who wish to become part of his life and finally gets what he deserves…
6 The Man Who Was Death
Dave Allison is a man with a secret, several secrets, none of them pleasant.
The year is 1968. The Reverend Paltoquet takes on the handsome Dave as his gardener to tend the graveyard as well as the vicarage gardens, and very soon he has the female population in a tizzy, not least among them the vicar’s usually imperturbable housekeeper, Mrs Harper. To outward appearances, he has everything going for him, but there is a dark side to his character. He has the ability to see people’s auras, and whenever he sees a black one around a person’s head, he knows that person will die.
Four years prior to working for the vicar of St Stephen’s in the borough of Wandsworth, he was employed as gardener to Lord and Lady Mountjoy at Mountjoy Court in a small Kent village. Following the demise of the lord of the manor in suspicious circumstances and the equally suspicious death of Lady Mountjoy’s lover, Paul Brierley, Dave is forced to leave and pick up any odd jobs he can to survive.
So, with his new family, he sets up home in Tooting and is soon working in and around the area, and this is when he comes to the attention of Bernard Paltoquet who is looking to replace his old gardener who is well past retirement age.
Dave is popular everywhere he goes, especially with the women, but he is a married man now with a little boy on whom he dotes. But back into his life comes Lady Mountjoy and with her his sordid past rears its ugly head.
Dr Robbie MacTavish, Bernard’s close friend, falls for the charms of Lady Mountjoy when she appears on the scene, unaware that she is a cold-blooded killer.
Slowly the story of Dave and Lady Mountjoy unravels, culminating in both getting their just desserts.
7 The Dark Side of the Mirror
Twins run in families, or so it has been known. The Fentiman family have their fair share of twins, past and present.
Robespierre and Danton Fentiman, identical in appearance, but not in personality, were hanged for two different murders back in 1937. Their ghosts appear to Robespierre’s twin sons, Carl and Basil, nearly twenty years later, asserting that their convictions were wrong and asking them to rectify two miscarriages of justice.
Carl asks his local vicar, Bernard Paltoquet of St Stephen’s church, Wandsworth, for help and he in turn seeks the help of an experienced clairvoyant. His close friend, Dorothy Plunkett, is still away in Exeter looking after her ailing father, so she sends him Anbolin Amery-Judge in her stead.
What follows is the unravelling of two twenty-year-old mysteries, culminating in wrongs being righted, with many a misunderstanding along the way.
Bernard’s friend, Dr Robbie MacTavish, is along for the ride, although he is distracted by a romantic entanglement with a much younger woman, much to the disapproval of the Reverend Paltoquet.
Meanwhile Mrs Harper, Bernard’s faithful housekeeper, keeps her beady eye on both men, ever ready with a caustic comment or a fondant fancy, as occasion demands.
Readers who have read and enjoyed other novels in this series, will easily recognise the characters and their foibles as they take the journey with them through the twists and turns of a plot that moves backwards and forwards from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
8 Sleeping With The Dead
Just what happened to two young women who disappeared from a small Blackpool guest house just after the First World War? Their fate has remained a mystery for many years, despite attempts by the husband of the first woman and the prospective husband of the second to find out.
Fast forward to the 1950s. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish arrive at the same guest house for a fortnight’s holiday.
Their summer break, however, proves very far from restful – Robbie is spooked in the night and
Bernard is perpetually bombarded by letters from his redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs Harper.
9 The Corpse Wore Red
The ninth novel in the ‘Reverend Bernard Paltoquet’ series finds the doughty Wandsworth vicar involved in another psychic mystery, along with his close friend and associate, Dr Robbie MacTavish and his old medium friend, Anbolin Amery-Judge. This time, it concerns the murder of a young, pregnant woman, Alice Troy, and the subsequent conviction of Howard Drake, one of Bernard’s parishioners, for the crime.
All the ingredients in the other novels in the series are here: haunted graves, quirky characters, dark deeds, misunderstandings and cosy cups of tea by roaring firesides.
The action of the story takes place within a two-year period in the late 1950s, alternating between the events during a long, hot summer leading up to the murder and subsequent trial of the accused and the dark winter days before he is due to be hanged.
Will there be a reprieve before it is too late?
10 Seeing Double
A story of murder and ghostly hauntings in a cosy 1950s England that is no more.
When a mysterious middle-aged woman moves in next door to St Stephen’s vicarage, she is immediately taken under the wing of Nancy Harper, the Reverend Bernard Paltoquet’s redoubtable housekeeper. As the relationship between the two women develops, however, ‘Mrs Aitch’ begins to entertain suspicions that her new neighbour is not all she seems. Bernard and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish also begin to think she has a dark secret.
Another stranger to the world of the St Stephen’s vicar comes in the shape of a freakish little man with strange powers which he uses to help Bernard and his friends with their various problems. Other complications ensue, culminating in the brutal slaying of a man on the eve of his wedding and an Old Bailey murder trial. But is the verdict safe?
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