Not everybody in Her Majesty's Reveune and Customs agreed with Tony Smith when he complained I had extreme political views for heckling the BNP at a peaceful protest in Burnley. There were,and are some very good people in HMRC - Paul Deeks, Jane Booth, Andy Burland. The best was Diane McGowan (HMRC Liverpool) who I have named Inspector McGowan after, in my fourth coming Inspector McGowan murder mysteries - a series of books set in and around Ormskirk were I grew up, below is the cover to the first book, Death of a Lesbian Nun, (release date April 14 2011).

When Sister Rose receives an anonymous letter pushed through her door at St Beades Home for retired nuns in Ormskirk warning her that somebody at Lady Enwhistle's dinner is going to die, she is surprised and shocked. Not as surprised and shocked as when she meets Helen McGowan who she knew during the war and whom she helped shelter from the Nazi's by disgusting her as a nun at the Vatican. Discovering that her friend is now a serving Police Officer she invites Inspector McGowan to Lady Entwhistle's dinner to discuss old times and see to it that no harm comes to any of the other dinner guests. But, soon, death strikes.