She Never Let a Guest Write Their Own Name
The Wexcombe Mysteries
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The Fourth Bed
A landlady dies on the last night of the show weekend, and only the woman who writes the obituaries knows her forty-six-year guest book rule.
At the Harbourmaster's Rest, four cooked breakfasts go cold on the sideboard and only three guests came down for them. Prudence Gaunt, who ran the house for forty-six years and kept every guest book since 1979, is found in her own back bedroom with the window open to the first hard frost of the autumn, and the doctor sees nothing in it worth a second look. Nell Fairweather, who writes the Gazette's obituaries and had four years of Prudence's pre-need file on her desk, is the only person alive who has heard Prudence explain her house rule — and the only one who knows what the books really are.
Chapters
00:00 Chapter One. The Fourth Breakfast
05:14 Chapter Two. Her Own Handwriting, Forty-Six Years Of It
10:56 Chapter Three. The Milk At Ten
16:15 Chapter Four. Three Coats, Four Beds
21:01 Chapter Five. Prudence's Margins
26:40 Chapter Six. The Night Watchman
32:05 Chapter Seven. What Sissel Saw, And Why She Said It
37:14 Chapter Eight. The Scorecards
42:38 Chapter Nine. The Back Bedroom Window
48:00 Chapter Ten. Prize-Giving
53:40 Chapter Eleven. The Honest Record
The Wexcombe Mysteries — Nell Fairweather writes the obituaries for a village of four hundred, which makes her the keeper of everyone's biography and the only person who reads the paperwork twice. Ivo Bassey of the coroner's office, the Wednesday craft circle and the Gazette's back office recur; expect quiet rooms, small objects, and deaths that look like accidents.
Every case is self-contained and fairly clued: everything you need to solve it is on the page before the solution is.
Subscribe if you would rather be told a story slowly.
Co-written with AI tools and revised by hand. Narrated and illustrated with AI. Original story, original characters, no reused or scraped material.
She Never Let a Guest Write Their Own Name
The Wexcombe Mysteries
20 views
The Fourth Bed
A landlady dies on the last night of the show weekend, and only the woman who writes the obituaries knows her forty-six-year guest book rule.
At the Harbourmaster's Rest, four cooked breakfasts go cold on the sideboard and only three guests came down for them. Prudence Gaunt, who ran the house for forty-six years and kept every guest book since 1979, is found in her own back bedroom with the window open to the first hard frost of the autumn, and the doctor sees nothing in it worth a second look. Nell Fairweather, who writes the Gazette's obituaries and had four years of Prudence's pre-need file on her desk, is the only person alive who has heard Prudence explain her house rule — and the only one who knows what the books really are.
Chapters
00:00 Chapter One. The Fourth Breakfast
05:14 Chapter Two. Her Own Handwriting, Forty-Six Years Of It
10:56 Chapter Three. The Milk At Ten
16:15 Chapter Four. Three Coats, Four Beds
21:01 Chapter Five. Prudence's Margins
26:40 Chapter Six. The Night Watchman
32:05 Chapter Seven. What Sissel Saw, And Why She Said It
37:14 Chapter Eight. The Scorecards
42:38 Chapter Nine. The Back Bedroom Window
48:00 Chapter Ten. Prize-Giving
53:40 Chapter Eleven. The Honest Record
The Wexcombe Mysteries — Nell Fairweather writes the obituaries for a village of four hundred, which makes her the keeper of everyone's biography and the only person who reads the paperwork twice. Ivo Bassey of the coroner's office, the Wednesday craft circle and the Gazette's back office recur; expect quiet rooms, small objects, and deaths that look like accidents.
Every case is self-contained and fairly clued: everything you need to solve it is on the page before the solution is.
Subscribe if you would rather be told a story slowly.
Co-written with AI tools and revised by hand. Narrated and illustrated with AI. Original story, original characters, no reused or scraped material.