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The Mystery of Mad Alice Lane
(2022)(A book in the York Ladies' Detective Agency series)
A Novella by Karen Charlton
York, England: September, 1939
As the occupants of historic York nervously adjust to the onset war, two best friends, Jemma and Bobbie, snatch a few pleasant hours together and reminisce about their love of Golden Age crime fiction and their childhood dream to launch their own detective agency.
But when a passing motorist claims he witnessed a murder in a furniture shop window, the police are baffled. There’s no body, no murderer and not a drop of splattered blood in sight.
It falls to the two women to explain the inexplicable and solve the mystery of Mad Alice Lane.
Welcome to the world of The York Ladies’ Detective Agency.
This introductory short story is the prequel to the first novel in the series, Smoke and Cracked Mirrors (published: 15th April, 2022).
Both can be read as standalone works of fiction and are ideal for fans of Richard Osman, Alexander McCall Smith, Agatha Christie and the TV series, ‘Foyle’s War’.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
As the occupants of historic York nervously adjust to the onset war, two best friends, Jemma and Bobbie, snatch a few pleasant hours together and reminisce about their love of Golden Age crime fiction and their childhood dream to launch their own detective agency.
But when a passing motorist claims he witnessed a murder in a furniture shop window, the police are baffled. There’s no body, no murderer and not a drop of splattered blood in sight.
It falls to the two women to explain the inexplicable and solve the mystery of Mad Alice Lane.
Welcome to the world of The York Ladies’ Detective Agency.
This introductory short story is the prequel to the first novel in the series, Smoke and Cracked Mirrors (published: 15th April, 2022).
Both can be read as standalone works of fiction and are ideal for fans of Richard Osman, Alexander McCall Smith, Agatha Christie and the TV series, ‘Foyle’s War’.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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