About this book
Murder in the Christmas post, and a clue in the first stamps with the young Queen's head.
December 1952, the first Christmas of the new reign, and the Christmas post is the heaviest Little Fennington can remember.
Peggy Ashdown is short-handed, her counter is buried in parcels, and on Friday 5 December the first stamps with the young Queen's head go on sale. Then murder comes to the sorting office.
But a stamp can say a great deal to a postmistress who knows the day it first went on sale.
Murder at the Christmas Sorting Office is the second Little Fennington Mystery: a fair-play whodunit in a Cotswold village the winter before the Coronation, with a black cat called Penny Black. Expect gentle humour, real history, and no gore or bad language. For readers who enjoy Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and James Runcie's Grantchester mysteries.
New to Little Fennington? Start with Murder at the Village Post Office.
Book details
- Author
- Clara Bramley
- Formats
- Kindle eBook · out 4 December 2026
- Series
- The Little Fennington Mysteries, book 2
- Publisher
- Sunday Afternoon Press