Down these mean streets - and these even meaner tunnels - a Goblin must go; tough, street-smart, one whose pride and honour separates him from the dregs, the scum of both worlds with whom, regrettably, he finds it necessary to associate. A Goblin with contacts both on and below the surface, and on both sides of the Law. A Goblin who gets the job done, asking only his usual fees, plus expenses.

You have a problem? You want it dealt with quickly and very discreetly? Don't want to involve the cops or lawyers of either world? And you can afford the very reasonable fees? Then Findo Gask is the private eye you need.

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Findo Gask - Goblin Detective is the very first book in the Findo Gask series.

The series currently comprises eight books, all in various stages of completion:

• Findo Gask - Goblin Detective: a revised and updated draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Backstreet Magics: four chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Underworld Investigations: a work in progress.
• Findo Gask - Graveyard Flatfoot: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Gumshoe Glamours: a complete first draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Dragon Sleuth: eight chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Moonlight Shamus: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Deadly Enchantment: a work in progress.

I have completed a chapter-by-chapter summary for Goblin Detective here. An index of characters for all books is now available.

If you have enjoyed this book, you may also like my collection of fifteen interlinked short stories under the title Four Square Less One. Can you work out the connection between the stories?

Why not take a look at my Lyndesfarne Bridge series of novels: New Bridge to Lyndesfarne, Bridge at War, Death on the New Bridge and Bridge of Stone and Magic.

Findo Gask is a real placename in Scotland, a little hamlet not far from Perth on the main A9 trunk route. The road sign on the main road always gives a degree of amusement whenever I pass - as well as providing part of the inspiration for this story.

You may have already spotted that I have taken the inspiration for a great many other character names from numerous places in the vicinity of Findo Gask.

Not the Findo Gask you are loooking for? Sorry! Try:

• Findo Gask: Alternative / Electronica / Pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. Also on Wikipedia.
• Findo Gask is a place in Perthshire, Scotland. Also on Wikipedia.
• Findo Gask is the name of a demon in Angel Fire East, a novel by Terry Brooks.