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Foreboding Foretelling Finally Found on Audible

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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.

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The no-news newsletter makes this newsworthy, but Anty Boisjoly’s seventh stumper has been on most platforms for weeks, for example…

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…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

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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

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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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Editorial Profligacy

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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.

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 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.

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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 case of withdrawal

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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.

Pre-order now for delivery on September 1st

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

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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.

The Case of the Controversial Cover

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A covert cover reveal

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Earlier this month subscribers to the newsletter got an early look at the radical cover design for Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall, the series starter for Teddy Quillfeather’s mysteries of manners and manors.

The view was not unanimous that the Tamara de Lempicka-inspired departure from convention was in keeping with the spirit of the series, and so a lively vote broke out to select from among four competing covers.

The clear winner features the core story elements — Teddy, her penguin, her car, Hardy Hall, and a hardy haul. It also establishes a direction for the covers of the entire series and has already made the design of the second book — Frauds On Favourite — appreciably easier.

Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall will be available from May 24th where all fine Amazon books are sold.