Description
Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...
Sir Humphrey has offered to play Father Christmas at the local hospital, but disaster strikes when he realises he won't be able to buy the sack of toys he'd promised the children.
Rupert, a gentleman of the road, is found asleep in an old car in the Hall's coach house. He is scrubbed up and given a room at the Hall, where two guests are already staying: a businessman and his rather young female companion. When money goes missing from their bedroom, Rupert is accused, and Miss Wyndham, the village's amateur sleuth, decides to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, local author Phineas Cook has come up with the idea of a resident ghost at the Hall to attract paying guests. All goes smoothly until the ghostly actors spend too long in the pub one evening and their performance descends into sword-wielding chaos.
As always in Batch Magna, events somehow manage to turn out all right in the end - but in the most unexpected manner...
Sir Humphrey's plans to play Father Christmas are thrown into doubt, and ghostly goings-on turn more chaotic than planned...
About the Author
Peter Maughan studied at the Actor's Workshop in London, and worked as an actor in the UK and Ireland (in the heyday of Ardmore Studios). He founded and ran a fringe theatre in Barnes, London and, living on a converted Thames sailing barge among a small colony of houseboats on the River Medway, wrote pilot film scripts as a freelance deep in the green shades of rural Kent. He lives in a river valley in the Welsh Marches where he writes the Batch Magna novels. Visit Peter's website at http://www.batchmagna.com
Book Information
ISBN 9781788421355
Author Peter Maughan
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Farrago
Publisher Duckworth Books
