<p>Michael Cooney's riotous farce has all the ingredients for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles. Eric Swan (aided by his Uncle George and unbeknown to his wife, Linda) has pocketed thousands of pounds through fraudulent DSS claims. When Norman Bassett (the lodger) opens the door to Mr Jenkins, the DSS Inspector, deceptive mayhem follows - as do the undertaker, bereavement counsellor, psychiatrist, Norman's fiancée, a corpse, the ominous Ms Cowper and a rather rebellious washing machine! "this superb farce...I found myself snorting like a demented whale. Cash on Delivery strikes me as being an instant classic of the genre." - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph</p>

Cash On Delivery

Literature & Fiction

COONEY, MICHAEL

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

Neither Rebel Nor Tory

United States

Wilderness Hill Publishers

<p>In the winter of 1885 William Druse disappeared from his run-down farm near the tiny village of Jordanville, New York. It took a month for the suspicions of his neighbors to lead the local sheriff to arrest Druse's wife Roxy for killing her husband with an axe. Even more horrific stories circulated of how she forced her son, daughter and nephew to dismember and burn the body. Some even said she fed their father's remains to the pigs. The trial which followed became the center of a newly sensational national press and drew the curious and morbid to the county courthouse in Herkimer. Among them was an aspiring young journalist named W. H. Tippetts who, as Roxy Druse fought for her life, published a short book detailing all of the county's murders from colonial times, culminating in an interview with Roxy herself. Despite a spirited campaign to save her life life, she was hung in Herkimer in 1887 while her daughter Mary received a ten year sentence as accomplice. This novel is based very closely on those events, as seen through the eyes of W.H. Tippetts, but presents a new view of Roxy Druse not as a cold-blooded murder but as a mother who would do anything to save the lives of her children. Also included is Tippetts' own history of the county's numerous murders in the years leading up to 1887.</p>

Roxy Druse & The Murders of Herkimer County

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Good Catholic Girl

Literary

ELJ Publications

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