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A Scrooge Mystery
Ebenezer Scrooge Mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author
- Andreina Cordani
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob, Nikki Patel
- Publisher
- Zaffre
- Publish Date
- 9 October 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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But changing your ways for a day is easy. Changing your ways for ever is a little trickier. Almost a year on, Scrooge is slipping back into bad habits.
When a lucrative business opportunity comes his way, he jumps at the chance to make some quick money . . . to give to the poor, obviously . . .
But then Scrooge sees her. Another ghost, silent and terrifying. Then Bob Cratchit is arrested for the woman's murder, and Scrooge sees only one way to save both his loyal employee and himself: he must solve this crime.
Scrooge's investigation takes him from the heights of business on the Royal Exchange to the depths of London's criminal underworld alongside the formidable Widow Tassell, boot-boy Jem and Tiny Tim. And as Christmas draws closer, Scrooge begins to realise there's more at stake than his own soul.
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Details
- Author
- Andreina Cordani
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob, Nikki Patel
- Duration
- 10 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781785126345
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Zaffre
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Last Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three festive spirits, and the bleak vision of his future has haunted him ever since. He wants to be a good man, and he never wants to see another ghost as long as he lives. But changing your ways for a day is easy. Changing your ways for ever is a little trickier. Almost a year on, Scrooge is slipping back into bad habits. When a lucrative business opportunity comes his way, he jumps at the chance to make some quick money . . . to give to the poor, obviously . . . But then Scrooge sees her. Another ghost, silent and terrifying. Then Bob Cratchit is arrested for the woman's murder, and Scrooge sees only one way to save both his loyal employee and himself: he must solve this crime.Scrooge's investigation takes him from the heights of business on the Royal Exchange to the depths of London's criminal underworld alongside the formidable Widow Tassell, boot-boy Jem and Tiny Tim. And as Christmas draws closer, Scrooge begins to realise there's more at stake than his own soul.
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