Geoffrey McSkimming

• Phyllis Wong and the Lure of the Lighthouse (2026) • Ogre in a Toga and More Perverse Verse (2023) • Cairo Jim and the Portal of Peristophanes – The Return of Cairo Jim (2021) • Phyllis Wong and the Crumpled Stranger (2020) • Phyllis Wong and the Vanishing Emeralds (2018) • Phyllis Wong and the Girl who Danced with Lightning (2017) • The Startling Tale of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2016) • Phyllis Wong and the Pockets of the Shadows (2016) • Phyllis Wong and the Waking of the Wizard (2015; ebook and revised edition 2018) • Phyllis Wong and the Return of the Conjuror (2014; ebook and revised edition 2018) • Phyllis Wong and the Secrets of Mr. Okyto (2012; ebook and revised edition 2018) • Ogre in a Toga and Other Perverse Verses (2008) • Cairo Jim and the Astragals of Angkor (2007; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim at the Crossroads of Orpheus (2006; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim and the Sumptuous Stash of Silenus (2005; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim and Jocelyn Osgood in Bedlam from Bollywood (2004; ebook and revised edition 2017) • ''Cairo Jim and the Rorting of Rameses' Regalia'' (2003; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim and the Chaos from Crete (2002; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim and the Tyrannical Bauble of Tiberius (2001; ebook and revised edition 2017) • Cairo Jim and the Lagoon of Tidal Magnificence (2000; ebook and revised edition 2016) • Cairo Jim Amidst the Petticoats of Artemis (2000; ebook and revised edition 2016) • Cairo Jim and the Secret Sepulchre of the Sphinx (1999; ebook and revised edition 2016) • Jocelyn Osgood: Ascent into Asgard (1998; ebook and revised edition 2024) • Cairo Jim and the Quest for the Quetzal Queen (1997; ebook and revised edition 2016) • ''Cairo Jim's Bumper Book of Flabbergasting Fragments'' (1996) • Cairo Jim and the Alabastron of Forgotten Gods (1996; ebook and revised edition 2016) • Jocelyn Osgood: Xylophones above Zarundi (1995; ebook and revised edition 2024) • Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret (1994; e-book and revised edition 2016) • Jocelyn Osgood: After the Puce Empress (1993; ebook and revised edition 2024) • Cairo Jim on the Trail to ChaCha Muchos (1992; ebook and revised edition 2016) • Cairo Jim & Doris in Search of Martenarten (1991; ebook and revised edition 2016) His Cairo Jim and Jocelyn Osgood books have been published in many different languages in Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Hungary, and New Zealand. ==Inspiration==

"''When Geoffrey McSkimming was a boy he found an old motion-picture projector and a tin containing a dusty home movie in his grandmother's attic. He screened the film and was transfixed by the flickering image of a man in a jaunty pith helmet, baggy Sahara shorts and special desert sun-spectacles. The man had an imposing macaw and a clever looking camel, and Geoffrey Mcskimming was mesmerised by their activities in black-and-white Egypt, Peru, Greece, Mexico, Sumatra, Turkey, Italy and other exotic locations.'' Years later he discovered the identities of the trio, and has spent much of his time since then retracing their footsteps, interviewing surviving members of the Old Relics Society, and gradually reconstructing the lost true tales of Cairo Jim, which have become the enormously successful Cairo Jim chronicles." == References ==