The Mystery of Mad Alice Lane
York, England: September, 1939
As the occupants of historic York nervously adjust to the onset war, two best friends, Jemma and Bobbie, snatch a few pleasant hours together and reminisce about their love of Golden Age crime fiction and their childhood dream to launch their own detective agency.
But when a passing motorist claims he witnessed a murder in a furniture shop window, the police are baffled. There’s no body, no murderer and not a drop of splattered blood in sight.
It falls to the two women to explain the inexplicable and solve the mystery of Mad Alice Lane.
As the occupants of historic York nervously adjust to the onset war, two best friends, Jemma and Bobbie, snatch a few pleasant hours together and reminisce about their love of Golden Age crime fiction and their childhood dream to launch their own detective agency.
But when a passing motorist claims he witnessed a murder in a furniture shop window, the police are baffled. There’s no body, no murderer and not a drop of splattered blood in sight.
It falls to the two women to explain the inexplicable and solve the mystery of Mad Alice Lane.
The Mystery of Mad Alice Lane is an introductory short story, the prequel to the series, and it is published in Kindle ebook only.