Description:This is a free Crampton of the Chronicle novella available from colincrampton.com.
SHOT
TWICE! Brighton antiques dealer Freddie Hollingbourne-Smith is murdered
in his workshop - and crime reporter Colin Crampton is first on the
scene.
TOO MANY SUSPECTS: Colin discovers plenty had reason to
kill Freddie… like thwarted beauty queen Julie Appleyard, his jilted
mistress… snooty toff Sir Tunnicliffe Hogg, his persecuted neighbour…
devious hard-man Harry Spittlefield, his cheated partner… not to mention
fiery and passionate Isabella, his betrayed ex-wife.
CRYPTIC
CLUE: Colin must puzzle out the mystery left by a small pile of
printers' type - all in capital letters - before he can finger the
killer.
THE CLIMAX EXPLODES on the famous train, the Brighton
Belle. With Colin's feisty Australian girlfriend Shirley at his side,
the laughs are never far from the clues as the pair hunt down the
murderer.