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Chapter
1 Fantasy of Death
Chapter 2 The Dreaded Confrontation
Chapter 3 The Agony, the Erotic and the Ecstasy
Chapter 4 Looks Good, Feels Good, Tastes Good
Chapter 5 The Golden Oarsman
Chapter 6 Journey to the Far North
Chapter 7 Adventures Along the Cromford Canal
Chapter 8 Water-cum-Jolly Dale
Chapter 9 Fairies, Goblins and Sacrificial Groves
Chapter 10 Wormhill
Chapter 11 A Gallery of Light in Tideswell
Chapter 12 Hell for Leather
Chapter 13 The Servant at Cressbrook Hall
Chapter 14 "He Comes Not Still, tis Dark No Moon"
Chapter 15 Acetous, Aloof, Cold and Haughty
Chapter 16 A Seductive, Suggestive, Silver Tongue
Chapter 17 Cracker Biscuits in the Cottage
Chapter 18 Guzzly Granddad
Chapter 19 Dolly, Dolly, Deep Dark and Devious
Chapter 20 A Writhing Tangle of Lubricated Bodies
Chapter 21 Butch Numbers and Bitchy Queens
Chapter 22 Babbacombe to Horsley Woodhouse
Chapter 23 Put Ya 'At on Joey!
Chapter 24 Clothes of the Dead
Chapter 25 The Hustler the Pimp and the Murderer
Chapter 26 Sluts Slags and Strumpets
Chapter 27 An Appeal on BBC Radio Derby
Chapter 28 The Other Twin
Chapter 29 Ghosts
Chapter 30 The Thoughts of Simeon
Chapter 31 Nymphs, Naiads and Dryads
Chapter 32 St John's Chapel in Belper
Chapter 33 Fantasy of Life
Cast of Characters in Lost Lad
Big Boy - A leading bully at Mundy Street Boys School
when he was a well developed twelve year old in 1957,
Simeon Hogg's darkest year. Enjoying delegated authority
from a sadistic schoolmaster, Big Boy inflicted pain and
took his pleasure at will.
Adolphus
Coggan known as Dolly - Gardener to Mr Hardman. Softly
spoken with a silver tongue of beautiful rounded vowels.
Dolly, deep, dark and mysterious, is an amusing and smooth
scented rotundity who has lived at the lodge to Cressbrook
Hall since childhood.
Tom
Day, known as Titch - The class clown and smallest of
'the six' pupils of William Howitt Secondary Modern School
who take a cycle ride up into the Peak District in 1960.
Duck
and Mrs Duck Plump and cosy residents in an end of terrace
house known as 'The Duckery' at Bog Hole in Horsley Woodhouse.
Soft, cushy, downy and ductile, they spend their days
twittering over the trifling and the trivia of everyday
life.
Brian
Forrester - One of the non-identical twins of 'the six'
who shares the same qualities as his brother Danny, but
also with a keen sense of humour and a slight tendency
to mischief and teasing.
Danny
Forrester - Easy-going, open, honest, good natured lad
who is ever cheerful, generous and trusting.
Kelly
Grocock - The 'village bicycle' of Horsley Woodhouse.
A teenager of easy virtue who shocked respectable opinion
by boasting of being a 'loose bitch' - but, also, a 'hard
bitch'.
Guzzly
Granddad - Ugly, unpleasant, smelly old man of uncertain
age who resides in a squalid terraced house in the back
streets of Derby entertaining a harem of teenage boys.
Toothless, slimy and slavering, his frequently seen glistening
tongue advertised his wanton speciality. Addressed as
'Granddad' but his real name, according to letters, is
Mr T. Piggs. Rumour has it that 'T' stands for Toby.
Algernon
Hardman - Haughty, cold, aloof, academic acetous owner
of Cressbrook Hall from 1944.
Charles
Hardman - Son of Algernon Hardman. As an adult he is an
acclaimed author of Derbyshire folklore. A charming and
popular gentleman with impeccable manners. He has mixed
feelings and no small amount of fear about re-opening
the investigation which appears to throw suspicion on
his late father.
Helen
Hardman - Upright proud 'county' lady of 'good breeding'
who married Charles Hardman in 1976. They have two daughters
and five grandchildren by 2003. Helen is determined to
protect her husband from the 'irresponsible amateur detectives'
who have travelled 4000 miles to threaten the peace and
contentment of her family.
Isaiah
Hardman 1858 to 1944. Cotton mill owner who bought Cressbrook
Hall in 1888. Father of Algernon.
Marjorie
Hardman - Married Algernon Hardman in 1945, mother of
Charles. Killed in Albania in 1960.
Gertie
Hogg - Sharp tongued matriarch of the Hogg family. This
highly entertaining harridan is Simeon's favourite Aunt
living with her husband Fred (the same age) at number
two Bog Hole.
Joyce
Hogg - Maiden aunt of Simeon and everything Gary Mackenzie
hates! She is old fashioned, bovine, slow, pleasant and
inoffensive. A shy rustic provincial spinster, very nervous
of men, who spends her days chatting to the budgie on
the kitchen table in her terraced, life long home at number
four Bog Hole, a scruffy but quaint back street corner
of Horsley Woodhouse.
Simeon
Hogg (Dobba) - One of 'the six' who is haunted for 43
years by the memory of the inexplicable disappearance
of a good friend back in 1960. In April 2003 he retires
from a teaching career in the USA and returns to Derbyshire
to find the lost lad.
Wilfred
Hogg - Grumpy old fashioned uncle of Simeon. Insular and
narrow minded, retired coal-miner with a horror of travel
and all things foreign. Lives with his crumpled and ruckled
wife Nelly at number three Bog Hole, Horsley Woodhouse.
Rex
Lloyd - Compact, well proportioned, powerful, muscular
member of 'the six'. A strapping popular vibrant personality,
confident and raucous, second only to Scott North.
Gary
Mackenzie - Long standing American friend and foil for
Simeon Hogg. Cosmopolitan, well-travelled and intolerant
of the parochial introspective world of Heanor and Horsley
Woodhouse. Over sexed, energetic, fast moving, highly
strung, hyper-active with a short fuse.
Scott
North - Athletic blond lad with stunning good looks and
leader of the original 'six'.
Aggie
Oaks Born in 1924 aged 79 in 2003. Long time enemy of
Gertie Hogg, Aggie has owned and served in the corner
shop at Bog Hole for as long as anyone can remember.
Detective
Inspector Derek Russell Born in 1915, 45 in 1960 when
he headed the search for the lost lad and is still a lively,
fit 88 in 2003. An officer with natural, easy charm: cordial,
polite and patient.
Barry
and Yvonne Peirson - Owners of Wellhead Farm guest house
in Wormhill where 'the six' have an enjoyable and interesting
holiday with three dogs, six cats, four chickens, a goat
and a sheep.
Simon
Tonks - Butler, cook, cleaner & general man-servant
to the Hardman family since 1952. Likeable, laughable,
slightly built clairvoyant with a notorious and hilarious
history of erotic 'incidents' which usually take place
in public lavatories.
Detective
Sergeant John Winter - Solid 'run of the mill' copper
who for many years was an assistant to Detective Inspector
Derek Russell.
Jasper
Wormall - Small, hideous and effeminate with deep set
leering fish eyes. Looking positively Jurassic, 'The Goblin'
as he was known in Belper, lived in a primitive isolated
cottage up Shire Oaks practising his legendary talents
of body massage and very keen to offer the 'extras'.
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