Counting Chickens
A free Toby & Doris caper: Hertfordshire, Easter 1968. The night in the hen house that Doris still brings up.
Toby Lockhart has sold an egg millionaire a membership in a London club that doesn’t exist, and the man has invited him down for Easter, with his fiancée. Toby doesn’t have a fiancée.
Doris Pym, who sells cigarettes in a Soho club, agrees to play the part on Toby’s usual terms: a third, expenses first. By Monday a necklace has vanished from the safe, someone at the dinner table is not who he says he is, and the Rhode Island Reds are furious.
Counting Chickens comes before the first Toby & Doris novel, An Honest Fiddle, and explains why Doris now insists on half: a novella of about 16,000 words (51 pages). You get it as EPUB (for Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books) and PDF.
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