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Gwendolen

First of the Philip Rayke 1950's Urban Fantasy Mysteries

Philip is just a desk man at the British Foreign Office who probably doesn't take life as seriously as he should, but his friend Inspector Henry Parkhurst knows he has a nose for the 'not quite normal'.

Can Philip discover why a college heartthrob would marry the sort of girl no one notices? How does a fit young man end up dead months later, alone in a locked room. What if the only answer is ... magic?

A trail of Russians, old books and a Cornishwoman. Who knows what really went on in that home of supposed wedded bliss if not … Gwendolen?

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... bohemian world of the Armstrong-Witworths, take the road to a remote Cornish cottage, experience the streets of 1950s London, in whose hidden corners murder and magic are never far away in the world of the Philip Rayke mysteries.

If you’ve enjoyed the Amanda Cadabra series, you’ll love encountering members of the supporting cast as they were in their twenties. If you’ve yet to read them this is the perfect introduction to members of that strange village where nothing is as it seems.

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Chapter 1
The day of the incident

'Fresh blood,' observed Mrs Cadabra.

Detective Sergeant Thomas Trelawney looked at her doubtfully. She observed that he was in his late thirties, tall


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At dead of night Tempest is conjured by witches Senara and Perran, Later that day, he makes his grand entrance to meet Amanda Cadabra. In the hours between, what was the magical familiar-to-be up to?


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"I’ve totally lost myself in the village of Sunken Madley and all the people there"

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