P.J. Fitzsimmons's Blog

The subtly-titled mottle of misdirection and missed detection returns to where it all started ten mysteries ago when none other than Anty’s friendly rival Inspector Wittersham is the only suspect in a locked-room murder in the ancient earldom of Fray. Of course Anty doesn’t believe for a second that Inspector Wittersham murdered a prisoner locked […]

There’s another new newsletter in the archive. I say new, but it’s new rather in the way a washing up liquid is new and improved, which is to say not at all. This number dates back to April and even then it was meant to be the February edition, delayed and then delayed again while […]

There’s a new newsletter, finally, in the archives, which means that the latest number has been sent out to subscribers after an unprecedented but unsurprising delay while we meditated and sacrificed a perfectly good bottle of Merlot and a night’s sleep in supplication to the sacred, secret rites by which an audiobook somehow makes it […]

On Valentine’s Day, 1975 at the age of 93, PG Wodehouse had the best of all possible ends. He passed away surrounded by the notes for what would be the last but was at the time his next Blandings novel. It was never completed, at least not in the traditional sense. I cherish this book, […]

The Christmas newsletter has entered the archive, finally, in time to make room for the blockbuster January edition, overflowing with exclusives news, cartoons, and cast lists for subscriber insiders.

Teddy Quillfeather’s second outing is finally out on February 14th. Teddy’s off to the races in this multi-layered multiplier mystery of dark horses and dodgy courses, pawky jockeys, unstable stables, impossible odds, crooked bookies, and a track-wide conspiracy to deny the punter an even chance. That’s more than enough to invite a counter-con from Teddy, […]

The official pre-Christmas hype edition of the newsletter (aka; November) is now in the newsletter archive, in a convient link just under the form you can use to sign up to get the newsletters as they come off the press. The Christmas number has just been sent out to subscribers, and it includes a seasonal […]

Literally the day after I sent out a newsletter passive-aggressively whingeing about Audible’s delay in releasing Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling, Audible released Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling. It’s nice to know they’re listening. FFaFF on, Audible The no-news newsletter makes this newsworthy, but Anty Boisjoly’s seventh stumper has been on most platforms for weeks, […]

The newsletter archive has another entry and the September number introduces a new feature. The audiobook version of Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling has been released (almost everywhere — Audible, presumably, is still playing it backwards, listening for subversive messages) in which the action unfolds in a richly and eccentrically populated Cotswolds manor house, and […]

International markets are reporting an historic drop in the price of The Case of the Canterfell Codicil from September 29th to October 4th. Trading around the world is seeing prices as low as 99 pence in the UK, a mere 99 cents in the US, Canada and Australia, and only 99 rupees in India. IF YOU’VE […]