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I’m a freelance ghost for mainstream genres but when I’m my own man I write strictly for the laughs. I dream of an alternative reality in which PG Wodehouse wrote locked room mysteries, and in which I’m PG Wodehouse.

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P.J. Fitzsimmons I do know that feeling and it’s only surpassed by the very idea that I might inspire it in another reader — I really appreciate the kind words, Mike. …moreI do know that feeling and it’s only surpassed by the very idea that I might inspire it in another reader — I really appreciate the kind words, Mike. I also appreciate the delightful comparison to cheese rolling and, for that matter, cheese rolling itself — there just has to be a plot device in that, hasn’t there?
Yes — another Anty adventure is well in hand. In fact, I’m writing this note in the short period between finishing the outline for book six, about two minutes ago, and beginning the actual writing, about two minutes from now.
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P.J. Fitzsimmons Thank you very much Susan, I sincerely can’t think of another way I’d rather have my books described.
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Thank you very much Susan, I sincerely can’t think of another way I’d rather have my books described.
The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse, in which we learn the peculiar origins of London’s finest club steward, is well in hand and aimed squarely at an April release. I’ve made similarly rash promises in the past, however, and overshot the release date of The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine by, hang on… September, Octob… blimey — three months!
I can only say for certain that it’s coming along nicely and I’m going to do my best and, even if it’s me saying so, it’s a cracking yarn.
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Anty Boisjoly Number 11 is available for pre-order

No sooner has the over-trusting Anty been wiled into judging a flower show in the biscuit-tin village of Market Middling than the chief suspect in a serial nobbling of the competition is found murdered in a room locked from the inside. And no sooner than that is Inspector Wittersham on the scene investigating an altogether […]
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“Aunty Azalea was always the eccentric one in a family not widely famed for an extravagant excess of marbles.”
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“You’ll probably want to jump straight to the punchline, in future, when recounting the discovery of a murder.”
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