Snowfall

By Tony Rattigan
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Published: Nov. 10, 2012
Words: 31,018 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301172276

Short description

A collected edition of the Christmas books: A Londum Yuletide and Quantum of Solstice. From an alternate Victorian England called Albion, a collection of spooky stories set during the Yuletide season, Pub Talk – Trial by Gravity – Unfinished Business – The Last Present – A Snowball in Hell’s Chance – Death on the Cards. Part of The Londum series.

Extended description

A collected edition of the Christmas books: A Londum Yuletide and Quantum of Solstice.

From an alternate Victorian England called Albion, a collection of spooky stories set during the Yuletide season:

Pub Talk (Read more) A collected edition of the Christmas books: A Londum Yuletide and Quantum of Solstice.

From an alternate Victorian England called Albion, a collection of spooky stories set during the Yuletide season:

Pub Talk
While working on a case in the snowy village of Strapley-on-the-Wold during the Yuletide season, Rufus Cobb, private detective, has a casual conversation with a stranger in the village pub, the outcome of which may have dire consequences for the whole world.
What would you say to a disillusioned Father Yule (the man who delivers toys to all the children of the world) who is about to quit his job?

Trial by Gravity
Jim Darby, gentleman thief, is making his escape from a successful robbery, over a snowy rooftop when disaster strikes, leaving him dangling over a four-storey drop. Luckily, someone comes along who could rescue him; the only trouble is … Jim has to convince him first, why he should.

Unfinished Business
Thornton Wells is visited by one of his trusted Secret Service contacts. A dangerous, foreign agent is about to leave the country with vital information, they must apprehend him immediately, without waiting for backup. The two of them set off at once, there is no time to lose, but is there more to this than meets the eye?

The Last Present
What’s so unusual about seeing a ghost at a spiritualist meeting? Nothing you might think, except Adele is the only one that can see him, not the medium. He wants Adele’s help to stop the man who murdered him, from doing the same to his family. Adele, Cobb and Won Lungh set out in a snowstorm to try and stop that from happening but it may well cost them their own lives, instead.

A Snowball in Hell’s Chance
Jim Darby comes across two young brothers trying to survive on the streets of Londum. He buys them some food but they refuse any further help and he doesn’t see them again. Or does he? Jim thinks that the shadowy figure he sees through the falling snow is one of them, but why is he throwing snowballs at him? And why does he want Jim to follow him?

Death on the Cards
Thornton Wells is drinking and reminiscing with an old friend, Sir Harold Ingleby, when Thornton tells him about what happened to him once, as a young man. ‘You’ll be the Death of me,’ ‘Facing your Death,’ ‘Look Death in the eye,’ those are just sayings ... aren’t they?

And a bonus poem

‘Twas the night before Solstice.
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Tags

angels, ghosts, death, paranormal, short stories, christmas, winter, alternate universe, s, father christmas, yuletide, cobb, rufus cobb, jim darby, londum, thornton wells

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