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Murder Makes an Entrée

Broadstairs is famed not only as a seaside resort but also as the holiday haunt of Charles Dickens – the author the Society has chosen to lionise for the year of the Prince’s presidency. The banquet, attended by six Peggottys, two Betsy Trotwoods, a couple of Little Dorrits, a Scrooge and a Mr Pickwick, not to mention a highly emotional Miss Havisham, passes off well – but the readings that follow do not. In the middle of the murder scene from Oliver Twist, the reader Sir Thomas Throgmorton collapses and dies.


It is soon realised that he has been poisoned, and Inspector Naseby of the local constabulary believes Didier’s banquet is to blame – after all, what can you expect when a foreigner cooks the food? Luckily Inspector Egbert Rose of Scotland Yard is on hand to help Didier’s investigations to prove his innocence of this most heinous of accusations.

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