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The first ever Anty Boisjoly in dramatic price drop

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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.

Get The Case of the Canterfell Codicil for only 99/

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.”

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Launch Day for Death Reports to a Health Resort

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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.

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The Case of the Missed Deadline

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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/

You can catch up here and, while you’re there, sign up to receive the newsletters as the moment they’re relevant.

Newsletter news

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The newsletter archive has a new item in the gallery; the May number announcing countless exclusives and inclusives that were fresh as flowers in May.

It’s still solid stuff, though, and can be seen here which is also, conveniently, where one signs up to receive newsletters the day they’re printed, including the current edition which features a cover reveal of the next Anty Boisjoly mystery.

Launch Day for Teddy Quillfeather

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The Boisjoly universe expands today as Anty’s cousin Teddy Quillfeather solves her first medley of manor house mysteries in Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall.

The theft of an immensely valuable, immensely ugly necklace is only the beginning of the intrigues and idiosyncrasies of a country weekend at Hardy Hall where Teddy’s mother has sent her with strict instructions to select an eligible bachelor from a shortlist of aristocrats, plutocrats, and copycats.

But when Teddy sets out to discourage the suitors and discover the looters with her natural knack for applied shenanigans she instead uncovers countless conspiracies, complicated by country house courtesies. It’s a comedy of manners and caper of manors and the only solution, if you’re Teddy Quillfeather, is obviously another heist…

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Theodora ‘Teddy’ Quillfeather had her debut in Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast, in which she helped her cousin, Anty Boisjoly, solve an impossible murder at sea. 

Teddy is by no means a female Anty Boisjoly. She’s an audacious and loquacious, stylish and coquettish stiletta of the golden age and very much a citizen in good standing of the Anty Boisjoly world of whimsy, but where Anty’s capricious, Teddy is mischievous, where Anty’s deductive, Teddy gets fully involved in the mystery as it unfolds, and as the locked room murder is to Anty Boisjoly the clever caper is to Teddy Quillfeather.

Indeed, there are no murders in Teddy Quillfeather Mysteries. Instead, Teddy fully implicates herself in smooth swindles and highwire heists, rigged rooms with loaded dice, and dark horses running dodgy courses.

Clearly, she needs her own series to manage it all.

Teddy Nearly Ready

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There’s a cheeky new cartoon featuring Anty Boisjoly and his cousin Teddy Quillfeather, about whom there will shortly be an official announcement. Subscribers to the newsletter have already worked out what that is, in the main, and are in broad agreement that it’s been a rollercoaster and that it’s a good job I’m not in charge of anything very important.

Owing to the pace of developments, the most recent TWO newsletters have made it to the archive a little earlier than usual and are available here and now.

All The News That’s Fit To Forget

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The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich audiobook was released this month and it went straight to number one in the coveted Traditional Detective Mysteries category. I was hoping for either the Locked Room Mysteries or Witty Sleuth categories but they’re both hotly contested and non-existent, so I knew that my chances were slim. Nevertheless, it’s an honour just to be nominated.

For those who haven’t heard it yet, it’s hilarious. I liked the book very much (full disclosure, I wrote it) but narrator Tim Bruce takes it to another level.

The other bit of news is that there’s a new newsletter and if you’re subscribed you’ll have observed that it’s such a blockbuster that I forgot to mention that The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich audiobook was at number one for a week.

It’s not too late to get your copy of this sensational special edition of the Anty Boisjoly Bulletin by signing up here.

Official locked-room humourist of the 2024 Olympic Games

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A local grocery store has at the door that which can only best be described as a sail advertising the availability of “Official Olympic Games 2024 Merchandise.”
That’s it. It doesn’t say what sort of merchandise. We’re just meant to be excited to rush in and see what they’ve got in stock that they always have in stock but now with a logo on it. Or perhaps they’re declaring the entire store official, like sacred ground, and anything you buy between now and when it’s discounted after the circus has left town is officially official.
I don’t know, and it’s in that capacity that I’m announcing that I’m the official locked-room humourist of the 2024 Olympic Games. If that’s not how it works and/or I’m stepping on the toes of the actual official locked room humourist, I’ll apologise now and withdraw the declaration.
Oh, and the February newsletter is now available in the archives.

The Ides of Audible

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kilcladdich-audio-coverThe Case of the Case of Kilcladdich launched officially on March 1st, unofficially on February 21st, was on most platforms by February 23rd, and it’s available as of today, the ides of March, on Audible.

Tim Bruce assumes the voices of a cast of almost all Scots in the sixth Anty Boisjoly Mystery, in which two impossible murders eliminate both master distillers of Anty Boisjoly’s favourite tipple. Anty must navigate a literal divide between two ancient communities, ruthless rivals in whisky, history, and golf, to identify the killer and save the spirit of Glen Glennegie.

Launch Day for RMS Ballast

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Today (assuming it’s still March 1st by the time this message reaches civilisation) Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast leaves dry dock for a stormy saga spanning the centuries and the seven seas.

This time it’s deadly weather, pirate treasure, and all-too-clever locked-stateroom murder that tests Anty’s talent for mysterious malice, even though the suspects are limited to the few and crew aboard a leaky yacht tossed on the tempestuous outer Scilly Seas.

Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast is available here and now on Kindle, Unlimited, and Paperback.

Thank you very much for reading.