This story starts with a bored, retired Detective Superintendent Albert Smith and his dog Rex Harrison; who can talk, sadly no one can hear him no, matter how hard he tries. Rex is a failed police dog who has issues with obedience. To be honest, as soon as I read that I just knew that this was going to be a brilliant book! They discover all sorts of things as they look into the case including a drug sting. Albert and Rex attract the attentions of the villains and have his room at the B&B where he is staying firebombed. One thing is for sure, what started out as a bit of fun, is getting deadlier by the hour, and they’d better work out what the dog knows soon or it could be curtains for them all. Review

Dundee is a beautiful city often winning prizes for its flowers. Albert meets Greta in this episode who is much than an eighty three year old lady in distress. They get involved in some hijinks that nearly gets them killed while Rex is "the one" who saves the day. Such a good boy.

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At school, I was mostly disinterested in every subject except creative writing, for which, at age ten, I won my first award. However, calling it my first award suggests that there have been more, which there have not. Accolades may come but, in the meantime, I am having a ball writing mystery stories and crime thrillers and will claim to have more than a hundred books forming an unruly queue in my head as they clamor to get out. Class Participant: Albert Smith, retired detective superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, accompanied by Rex Harrison, former police dog, currently assistance dog. Arbroath, a town in Scotland up the eastern Scottish coast northeast of Dundee, is famous for its smoked herring (smokies). Albert and Rex head there because of a photograph including the Master Gastrothief's two henchmen who met their demise in a prior episode. Although that clue didn't yield any answers, there was murder and corruption in high places which Albert was determined to solve. This book had me on the edge of my seat to find out what happened including Rex's ongoing battle with the seagulls. It was a great mystery but Albert figured it out with help from his B&B landlady and other townsfolk. The ending was a cliffhanger with another kidnapping. Meanwhile Albert & Rex arrived heading for Dundee.

His dog, Rex Harrison, an ex-police dog fired for having a bad attitude, cannot understand why the humans are struggling to solve the mystery. He can already smell the answer – it’s right before their noses. Denying to believe in coincidence, Albert and Rex prepare to discover why her accident is the second terrible event in two days. It appears something is baking in Bakewell, and it’s not the ingredients of the famous dessert. Bedfordshire Clanger Calamity. Hysterically funny, like a Marx brothers movie, I could picture every scene: the delusional master mind behind the kidnapping and murder and his two pathetic henchmen up against Arthur's superior brain and Rex's brawn (& brain too actually). The Clanger was a revelation, another addition to the unique culinary experiments of the British Isles (reading the history and recipe at the end of the tales is always an additional treat!).who was widowed exactly one year ago yesterday, is embarking on a culinary tour of his native England with his “assistance dog,” Rex Harrison. The German Shepherd is “the only dog in the history of the Metropolitan police to have been fired for having a bad attitude,” but he and Albert are fond of each other and work well together. Pork Pie Pandemonium is a mystery novel and the first of the Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers series. The story follows Albert Smith, a retired detective living in England, as he takes a culinary tour around the country. His vacation is almost immediately interrupted by an incident in a pork pie cooking class he is attending. Despite the warnings of local police, Albert decides to investigate the incident himself, along with the help of his service dog, Rex Harrison, and the pie shop owner’s teenage daughter, Donna. Together, they follow the clues to solve the mystery and save the shop, all the while getting into more and more trouble. Pork Pie Pandemonium is book #1 of the Albert Smith's Culinary Capers series by Steve Higgs. This book is about Albert Smith, a retired British Police Superintendent in his mid-70s, who after the death of his wife, has started taking cooking lessons in different English towns. He has 3 adult children: 2 boys and 1 girl, all in their 40s or 50s. The children are police officers in a different British town. He also has an assistance dog, a former Police K-9 named Rex Harrison, and yes, he is named after the actor of the same name. Albert is in his first cooking class, learning how to make the perfect pork pie, when one of the other students screams bloody murder. She has found a human thumb on top of her pile of pork. So, the police are called to the scene: DS (Detective Sergeant) Moss, a lady in her 40s; and DC (Detective Constable) Wright, a man in his 30s. The novel combines the interest and suspense of who did it with the humanity of senior living accompanied by a faithful and dedicated dog. Rex shares his thoughts with the reader even when Albert can’t hear or understand them. He gets the chance to dialogue during the story, but unfortunately, his words only stay in his head since no one can listen to him except the other dogs.