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Frauds on Favourite Is At the Gate
Teddy Quillfeather’s second outing is finally out on February 14th.
Teddy’s off to the races in this multi-layered multiplier mystery of dark horses and dodgy courses, pawky jockeys, unstable stables, impossible odds, crooked bookies, and a track-wide conspiracy to deny the punter an even chance. That’s more than enough to invite a counter-con from Teddy, but when the family paddock is implicated in race-fixing, she does what she does best when the odds go against her — she raises the stakes.
The official census is still being compiled, but Frauds on Favourite is almost certainly the largest cast yet assembled under a single Boisjoly/Quillfeather banner, even without including the horses and chickens, and there are definitely record numbers of horses and chickens.
Pre-Christmas Hype (get yours now)
The official pre-Christmas hype edition of the newsletter (aka; November) is now in the newsletter archive, in a convient link just under the form you can use to sign up to get the newsletters as they come off the press.
The Christmas number has just been sent out to subscribers, and it includes a seasonal parody cartoon and a cast list for The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning, as mere support matter for the meat of the mail, a cover reveal of the next Teddy Quillfeather.
Foreboding Foretelling Finally Found on Audible
Literally the day after I sent out a newsletter passive-aggressively whingeing about Audible’s delay in releasing Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling, Audible released Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling. It’s nice to know they’re listening.
The no-news newsletter makes this newsworthy, but Anty Boisjoly’s seventh stumper has been on most platforms for weeks, for example…
…and there’s a good chance that it’s on your library app.
Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling is Anty’s twistiest mysteriest manor house mystery in history, and it has the largest cast of characters that Tim Bruce has heretofore given voice. Of course it’s another tour de force from Tim, helped only slightly by a cast list, a redacted version of which is in the September newsletter, already available for download in the archive.
While there, why not take the opportunity to subscribe to the newsletter — you’ll immediately get the current issue, which includes a cast list of the first Anty Boisjoly mystery, The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, soon followed by the much-anticipated Christmas edition, featuring two exclusive cartoons and a cover reveal.
New Newsletter Feature
The newsletter archive has another entry and the September number introduces a new feature.
The audiobook version of Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling has been released (almost everywhere — Audible, presumably, is still playing it backwards, listening for subversive messages) in which the action unfolds in a richly and eccentrically populated Cotswolds manor house, and yet Voice-of-Anty Tim Bruce manages to track and trace all the accents and attitudes.
This is because Tim is a professional — a professional who has an annotated text and a cast list provided by the author who, it is widely rumoured, tends to over-share. A clever reader suggested that listeners might appreciate having a similar leg-up, and that the cast list be made available to newsletter subscribers.
Which is the new feature that you’ll find now in the latest newsletter added to the archive. Subscribers know this already, and they’ll also be getting the November newsletter featuring a custom-written cast list of the first Anty Boisjoly, The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, along with new cartoons and exclusive announcements.
The first ever Anty Boisjoly in dramatic price drop
International markets are reporting an historic drop in the price of The Case of the Canterfell Codicil from September 29th to October 4th. Trading around the world is seeing prices as low as 99 pence in the UK, a mere 99 cents in the US, Canada and Australia, and only 99 rupees in India.
IF YOU’VE ALREADY READ The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, then this discount is a spiffing opportunity to share it with friends and neighbours who might appreciate or benefit from knowing how your mind works.
AND IF YOU’RE THAT FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR, welcome. I very much hope that you enjoy the selected silliness and that you’ll consider taking advantage of this discount on the first Anty Boisjoly locked-room mystery, The Case of the Canterfell Codicil.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A new mystery series that reminds you of Jeeves and Wooster.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The perfect locked-room mystery (not once, but twice!!!) and kept this reader on the edge of her seat from start to finish.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Locked room manor house mystery that keeps you laughing and guessing until the end!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The wonderful breezy Wodehouse dialogue had me actually laughing out loud. Well done, nice twist at end.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Wonderful locked room country house mystery.”
Editorial Profligacy
It’s widely known in literary circles that we here at the agency of Boisjoly and Quillfeather maintain and strictly observe a policy of producing newsletters only when there’s adequate news to let.
The corollary to this, of course, is that when there’s an abundance of news, such as is the case with the latest number which features a big discount announcement, a fresh cartoon and a new, reader-inspired regular feature, there’ll be a correspondingly massive newsletter.
You can get ahold of it (it’s suitable for skimming if you only have a few hours to spare) by subscribing here, where you’ll also discover that the almost equally impressive August edition has been added to the archive.
If you are looking at the archive edition, you might receive the impression that the latest Anty Boisjoly, Death Reports to a Health Resort, is available for pre-order. That, for the record, is old news, and Anty’s antics in a health resort in the wilds of Epping Forest are available for immediate purchase.
Launch Day for Death Reports to a Health Resort
So long as today remains September 1st, it’s launch day for Death Reports to a Health Resort, the ninth in Anty Boisjoly’ series of stumpers.
When his hot-tempered uncle is accused of an impossible crime by the wary and weary and ever leery Inspector Wittersham, Anty’s mum sends him to the wilds of Epping Forest to sort out who could have managed to murder the universally disliked taskmaster of a health resort dedicated to the repression and suppression of the best of the seven sins.
And things only get worse for Anty’s Uncle Pim when his nemesis dies in another murder that both eye-witnesses — Anty Boisjoly and Inspector Wittersham — swear was impossible.
The case of the case of withdrawal
Death Reports to a Health Resort, the ninth Anty Boisjoly, is available for pre-order
When his uncle is accused of an impossible crime by the wary and weary and ever leery Inspector Wittersham, Anty Boisjoly’s mum sends him to the wilds of Epping Forest to sort out who could have managed to murder the universally disliked taskmaster of a health resort dedicated to the repression and suppression of the best of the seven sins.
And things only get worse for Anty’s Uncle Pim when his nemesis dies in another murder that both eye-witnesses — Anty Boisjoly and Inspector Wittersham — swear was impossible.
As if two impossible murders aren’t enough, Anty and Inspector Wittersham find themselves at a health resort which allows none of their familiar sources of inspiration under strict rules enforced by Diogenes, the basset hound who’s lost faith in humanity.
And so the inspector must do without tobacco for his pipe and Anty without whisky for his wit as they uncover the secrets held by the drinkers and cheaters and full-time over-eaters, each of whom had cause or craving to kill.
The Case of the Missed Deadline
There’s a new entry in the newsletter archive so full of revelations and reveals that even if I’d noticed this mention in Audiofile for The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich I’d have probably left it out:
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/250995/the-case-of-the-case-of-kilcladdich-by-pj-fitzsimmons-read-by-tim-bruce/
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