TP Fielden

A Quarter Past Dead


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      TP FIELDEN is a leading author, broadcaster and journalist. This is the third novel in the Miss Dimont Mystery series.

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      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

      Copyright © TP Fielden 2018

      TP Fielden asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © November 2018 ISBN: 9780008193799

       Version: 2018-09-13

      ‘Peak comfort read has been achieved’

       Red

      ‘One of the best in the genre’

       The Sun

      ‘This is a fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime. No wonder the author has already been signed up to produce more adventures starring the indefatigable Miss Dimont’

       Daily Express

      ‘Unashamedly cosy, with gentle humour and a pleasingly eccentric amateur sleuth, this solid old-fashioned whodunit is the first in what promises to be an entertaining series’

       The Guardian

      ‘Highly amusing’

       Evening Standard

      ‘TP Fielden is a fabulous new voice and his dignified, clever heroine is a compelling new character. This delicious adventure is the first of a series and I can’t wait for the next one’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

      ‘A golden age mystery’

       Sunday Express

      ‘Tremendous fun’

       The Independent

      Bo Wilson

      Of every creature’s best

      Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Dedication

       EIGHT

       NINE

       TEN

       ELEVEN

       TWELVE

       THIRTEEN

       FOURTEEN

       FIFTEEN

       SIXTEEN

       SEVENTEEN

       EIGHTEEN

       NINETEEN

       TWENTY

       TWENTY-ONE

       TWENTY-TWO

       TWENTY-THREE

       TWENTY-FOUR

       TWENTY-FIVE

       TWENTY-SIX

       TWENTY-SEVEN

       Extract

       About the Publisher

      The trouble with Betty was she could never say no.

      ‘Oh, Betty,’ sighed Miss Dimont, looking over her Remington Quiet-Riter