The Secret of the Golden Christmas Cracker

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A captivating and twist-filled Christmas novella.

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“A masterfully written mystery in a Victorian setting…” — Reedsy Discovery Review

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This Is No Ordinary Christmas Cracker

And These Are No Ordinary Lovers

A box of Christmas crackers falls off a carriage in Victorian London. But who lost them?

By chance, a passer-by picks it up and takes it home. The crackers are handed out at a festive lunch laid on by Colonel Warwell in Hampshire. Afterwards, Warwell disturbs an intruder where he is staying. And the brave colonel gets thwacked with a cudgel. But what was the ruffian searching for?

Then, on Christmas Eve, a surprise revelation links a pair of ardent lovers to the growing conundrum. The amateur detectives, Warwell and Knowles, learn of the mysterious couple’s clandestine rendezvous. But what else were the lovers scheming about?

Determined to find out, the sleuths head to London, the starting point of the mystery. And they team up with the brainy Thomas Pope and the resourceful Chief Inspector Bullington. 

Can Warwell and Knowles discover the answers?

Or is the riddle of the golden Christmas cracker just too difficult to crack?

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The Secret of The Golden Christmas Cracker is the third book in The May Quillink Crime Mystery Collection. 

A classic adventure and an absorbing page turner.

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The May Quillink Crime Mystery Collection

Warwell & Knowles Crime Mysteries

A series of ingenious plots with twists and turns that are designed to engage the reader to the very last page. If you like Sherlock Holmes and other British detective books then I’m sure you’ll appreciate these original and absorbing stories set in the Victorian era.

The Victorian sleuths Colonel Warwell and Fry Knowles pit their wits against a variety of sneaky thieves, foreign spies, merciless killers and more than one gang of determined villains. And danger is never far away…

So who are the amateur detectives? Colonel George Hunter Warwell is a retired army officer who has found an exciting new vocation hunting down criminals. By chance, he meets the skilled amateur sleuth, Fry Knowles, and they become embroiled in a baffling mystery. And that is when they enlist the help of three talented allies: Thomas Pope, a brilliant deductive thinker, the dependable Chief Inspector Bullington of Scotland Yard and Bob Buzzby, a resourceful young growler cab owner.

Each novella has been written as a stand-alone story.