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Murder at the Christmas Meddlercon
(2024)(Book 26 in the Sanford Third Age Club Mystery series)
A novel by David W Robinson
It’s coming up to Christmas, and Joe is in the wars.
Suffering from an unidentified gastric problem, he’s banned from working behind the counter of his beloved Lazy Luncheonette. To make matters worse, Brenda and Sheila have decided to treat him to a weekend in Leeds where they will attend the annual Christmas Meddlercon, a convention which attracts the stars and fans of TVs most popular crime series, the Meddler Murder Mysteries.
From the outset he is at odds with the convention organiser, the dowdy but forthright Sammy Pallister. Then, he clashes with the head writer, Ernestia Berkeley, and his spirits sink further when a familiar, dirt-digging, investigative reporter turns up incognito.
And things are about get worse. In the early hours of the morning, Joe is called to account for his whereabouts after a body has been found behind the hotel/convention centre. After dealing with the police, he goes back to bed, only to be dragged in front of his old adversary, Superintendent Ray Dockerty, after a second body has been discovered.
Joe and Dockerty call a truce, and the superintendent asks Joe to keep an eye on things but not to ‘poke his nose in’. Can Joe resist the temptation? Of course not.
A double murder, a television cast riding on their egos, personal clashes, and the ever urgent need to deal with his gastric problems, create a weekend of chaos for Joe’s 26th Sanford 3rd Age Club Mystery, as he tries to crack…
Murder at the Christmas Meddlercon.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Suffering from an unidentified gastric problem, he’s banned from working behind the counter of his beloved Lazy Luncheonette. To make matters worse, Brenda and Sheila have decided to treat him to a weekend in Leeds where they will attend the annual Christmas Meddlercon, a convention which attracts the stars and fans of TVs most popular crime series, the Meddler Murder Mysteries.
From the outset he is at odds with the convention organiser, the dowdy but forthright Sammy Pallister. Then, he clashes with the head writer, Ernestia Berkeley, and his spirits sink further when a familiar, dirt-digging, investigative reporter turns up incognito.
And things are about get worse. In the early hours of the morning, Joe is called to account for his whereabouts after a body has been found behind the hotel/convention centre. After dealing with the police, he goes back to bed, only to be dragged in front of his old adversary, Superintendent Ray Dockerty, after a second body has been discovered.
Joe and Dockerty call a truce, and the superintendent asks Joe to keep an eye on things but not to ‘poke his nose in’. Can Joe resist the temptation? Of course not.
A double murder, a television cast riding on their egos, personal clashes, and the ever urgent need to deal with his gastric problems, create a weekend of chaos for Joe’s 26th Sanford 3rd Age Club Mystery, as he tries to crack…
Murder at the Christmas Meddlercon.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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