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The Parcel That Never Arrived: A seaside cozy with a lost postbag, a forged receipt, and a cold debt
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An historic postbag is unveiled at the museum. Inside sits a decades-late letter that should have released grant money in 1979. Minutes later the curator collapses after tea, and the town's old debt stirs again.
Sylvie Kemp and her neighbors step in where quiet persistence helps most. With DC Becca Vale keeping the scene tight, the quartet follow a fair trail of clues: a teabag wrapper tied with a distinctive knot, a receipt carbon that shows a second parcel number under the current one, a stamp watermark wrong for the stated year, security lights that break an alibi, a postbag tag sewn with two kinds of thread, a wrong-turn arrow that lines up with a blind corner, a micro-crease on a commemorative envelope, and a binder margin marked B-List 3.
Midway through the case, the shock lands. The bag is genuine. The forgery sits where it hurts the most, in the paper that would have freed funds for a family who never saw a penny. The deputy curator curated a drama to drive donations, the stamp dealer fanned it for profit, and a councillor tried to ride the wave. One more missing name from the Benefactors List comes into focus, and the town learns why truth beats spectacle.
You'll enjoy this if you like
- Senior sleuth teams who notice the small thing and make it count
- British village settings with museums, council offices, and real civic stakes
- Honest, fair-play puzzles you can solve
- Competent police, warm tone, no gore
Content notes
Clean language. Peril and medical events off-page. Complete mystery in one book with a light series thread about the 1979 Benefactors List.
Read as a standalone or after Book 1, The Scarf on the Stairs.
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