The Ghost of Artemus Strange

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Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...

Sir Humphrey has offered to play FatherChristmas at the local hospital, but disaster strikeswhen he realises he won't be able to buy the sack of toys he'dpromised thechildren.

Rupert, a gentleman of the road, is foundasleep in an old car in the Hall's coach house. He isscrubbed up and given aroom at the Hall, where two guests are already staying: abusinessman and hisrather young female companion. When money goes missing from theirbedroom, Rupertis accused, and Miss Wyndham, the village's amateur sleuth, decides toinvestigate the matter.

Meanwhile, local author Phineas Cook has comeup with the idea of a resident ghost at the Hallto attract paying guests.All goes smoothly until the ghostly actors spend too long in the puboneevening and their performance descends into sword-wielding chaos.

As always in Batch Magna, events somehowmanage to turn out all right in the end - but inthe most unexpected manner...

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Peter Maughanstudied 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