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New novel! Mike has added extracts of his new novel, the one about windmills and alternative energy.

Click on 'Novels' and look for the new name under 'New'.

ALSO,

Mike adds new extracts to his 'Unfinished' page.

Click on 'Unfinished Novels' and look at the first one, 'Canton Ambush'.

Welcome to the Home page of Mike Scantlebury. Here you can find extracts of his novels, a sample of his many short stories, radio plays, poetry - and more. Look out for developments, additions and - unexplained mysteries. After all, Mike writes mystery stories......

The Manchester Modern Murder Mystery Novels Series

Mike now lives on the same street as Salford Lads' Club.
He helps run the Junior Play session on a Monday evening. As he clears up, he sees Vinnie Peculiar and ex-members of the Smiths arrive for their weekly practice.
He works alongside the Club's Management Committee, and helps them raise funds.
For many years Mike lived in Manchester, but when things got too hot for him there, he moved across the river and made a home in the sleepy backwater of Salford's terraced streets. At the head of his road is Coronation Street, (the original), and in the distance the other way he can see the outline of cranes on the edge of Salford docks.
These historical locations have given him more material that he can use in his mystery novels. Latest efforts, like 'Canton Ambush', draw heavily on the Manchester/Salford rivalry. ('Canton Ambush' was a contender in the Richard and Judy Murder Mystery Competition of late 2005.)

The Victorian Novels Series

Mike is currently submitting material to the American market.
Over there, they think Charles Dickens is a contemporary novelist.
They like to see pictures in black and white of women in gaudy bonnets and men in bowler hats thronging the busy streets, dodging trams and horse drawn carts in a sullen, grimy, fog-laden Manchester. Urchins run around stealing hankerchiefs from the sleeves of well-to-do toffs, and groups of penniless orphans burst spontaneously into song.
It's a fine life.

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Many of Mike's novels are set in and around the city of Manchester, in the North of England.

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