Years after the town drunk woke up in a bus shelter and saw an extinct Tasmanian tiger breathing down on him, the laughs keep coming in Windy Mountain.

Australian writer John Martin has packaged the first five novels of the series together in one bundle.

1. WHO KNEW TASMANIAN TIGERS EAT APPLES!

This novel has revenge like you have probably never seen, dealt up by a Tasmanian Tiger tracker who doesn't really want to deal it. The Tasmanian Tiger tracker tangles with a greedy mayor who believes no one can tell him what to do with an apple orchard that was handed down from his great, great, great grandfather, who was a tyrant who struck fear into the hearts of Irish convicts under his command. This book is set in the early 1990s.

2. LIE OF THE TIGER

Dogged determination is required if the two octogenarians are to "prove" the existence of the Tasmanian Tiger. That's not good news for a third old man who has the only legal dog in town, but stuff him. Oodles and Wish-Wash have good reason not to like The Mayor anyway and if he won't help, they are prepared to break the law. They simply have to help the mysterious Irishman who arrives to become the new manager of the Windy Mountain Tasmanian Tiger Museum, only to find it in an appalling state after the previous manager left the building in a coffin, and further discover the dodgy owners don't actually want him to succeed anyway.

3. BLOKES ON A PLANE

Two old-age pensioners go from being unlikely tourists to unlikely sleuths when the former mayor disappears and someone starts stealing landmarks in Windy Mountain. These octogenarians are supposed to be planning their trip to Ireland to retrace family roots. But it's time to break out the walkie-talkies and cow-camouflage trousers.

4. WHITEY AND THE SIX DWARFS

Even when they're not there, the old men are complicating things. Find out how in this funny whodunnit. Oodles, Wish-Wash and The Mayor have gone to Ireland to research family history, and have washed their hands of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum. But the new owners are thrown into a puzzle after a garden ornament goes missing. The clues include a skeleton, a chess set, and a concrete marsupial with a secret pouch. The old men are no help. In fact, their emails just muddy the waters.

5. BLOKES IN DONEGAL

The old men think they're flying to Ireland to trace family history and to inherit a castle. The reality is very different. It seems St Patrick was so busy chasing the snakes out of Ireland, he overlooked ridding the country of Tasmanian Tigers. Or did he?

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