Front cover of The Wimbledon Poisoner illustrated by
Pierre Le-Tan
The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990,
ISBN978-0-571-16131-7) : Henry Farr, a struggling solicitor is desperate to get rid of his wife, Elinor and decides to poison her, following the example of Everett Maltby, the original Wimbledon Poisoner. He obtains a quantity of
thallium from a chemist using a forged optician's order and
bastes a roast chicken with it. Unfortunately his wife is not feeling hungry and neighbour Donald arrives unexpectedly as the meal is served and takes a large portion with tragic results. Soon his friends and neighbours are dying in great numbers as the poisoning continues to misfire, and at every turn Henry is dogged by Inspector Rush, a friend of Elinor's...
They Came from
SW19 (1992,
ISBN978-0-571-16836-1) : 14 year-old
ufologist Simon Britten's father has just died and his spiritualist mother attempts to contact him through the advocacy of The First Church of Christ the
Spiritualist, South Wimbledon of which she is a member. At the same time the regular
UFO watch on Wimbledon Common also makes contact of a different kind. Simon is caught between
the church and aliens and struggles to find the truth...
East of Wimbledon (1993,
ISBN978-0-571-17151-4): Robert Williams passes himself off as a
Muslim to get a job at the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys Day School. This pretence is soon under pressure as Robert knows very little about
Islam. He is also entrusted with the care of Hasan a blind pupil who is believed by the so-called 'twenty-fourthers' (cf.
twelvers), a sect of the
nizariismailis, to be the twenty-fourth
imam (cf.
Twelfth Imam), whose
occultation they eagerly await...
They were collected together in a combined volume entitled The Wimbledon Trilogy in 1995 (
ISBN978-0571176335).
Scenes from a Poisoner's Life (1994,
ISBN978-0-571-17403-4), is a series of 12 linked stories, one for each month of the year concerning characters from the Wimbledon Trilogy.