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International Police Association Section UK Competition page Lottery Results The winners for February 2024: 1st prize (£100) Spike Elliott (Cheshire Branch);

Vol 69, Edition 2 Winners: Don Ramsay (Hertfordshire Branch) wins the crossword and Danube Delivery by Ian Allan. Matthew Cooksey (London North (of the Thames)) wins the sudoku and Off the wall: How to develop world class mental resilience by John Dabrowsi.

2nd prize (£60) Ronnie Dukes (Glasgow, Lomond & Clyde Branch); 3rd prize (£40) Pete Connolly (Northern Ireland-Greater Belfast). January 2024: 1st prize (£100) Douglas Skate (Cambridgeshire Branch); 2nd prize (£60) Patricia Holdsworth (Birmingham West Midlands Branch); 3rd prize (£40) Ian Reynolds (Hampshire Branch). December 2023: 1st prize (£100) Caroline Scully (Cambridgeshire Branch); 2nd prize (£60) Patricia Holdsworth (Birmingham West Midlands Branch);

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3rd prize (£40) Chris Burnett (North East England Branch). Puzzles The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine. Solve the puzzle/s and send them in. The lucky winners will be drawn out of the hat. Send the complete puzzles to: ‘Puzzles’, International Police Association, IPA HQ, Section UK, 1 Fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6AJ or as a scan by email to mail@ipa-uk.org marked ‘Puzzles’. Deadline for entries is: 14 June 2024.

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About the books The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. The first book in the number one best-selling, multi-million copy selling series by TV presenter Richard Osman. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be pushing 80, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late? Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors—a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an expert weaving of human observation, ingenuity and genuine science of the era. In Murder Isn’t Easy Carla Valentine illuminates all of Agatha’s incredible knowledge, showing how she stayed at the cutting edge of forensics from ballistics to fingerprint analysis, as seen through much loved characters such as Poirot and Miss Marple. From the glamour and grit of Agatha Christie’s stories, to the real-life cases that inspired them, Murder Isn’t Easy will immerse you in the forensics that influenced generations of writers and scientists alike.

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