When Anty Boisjoly is snookered into judging a flower show in more than just an excuse to have an art nouveau cover, the chief suspect in a comprehensive nobbling of the competition is found murdered in a room locked from the inside.

Simultaneously, Inspector Wittersham is investigating an altogether different murder on board a train in, by one of those coincidences that happen every six months or so, a compartment that was locked from the inside.

Massacre at Market Middling is finally finished but for a spritz of water and maybe a snapdragon stem or two, and newsletter subscribers will shortly be receiving the pre-order link they’ll have been anticipating since seeing this cover reveal fully four weeks ago.

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