Postcards of Forgotten Murders

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Literatureslight Publishing, Sep 16, 2025 - Fiction - 210 pages

When Juniper Morisot buys a handful of hand-painted postcards at a quaint Christmas fete, she expects nothing more than charming winter scenes. But her husband, Albert, a retired officer of the Intelligence Corps, recognizes something chilling in the brushstrokes. Each postcard depicts a crime scene from two decades earlier: the work of a forgotten serial killer who once haunted their quiet community.

As the Morisots pore over the mysterious collection, they begin to unravel secrets buried beneath the snow of memory, locked-room murders that defied explanation, deaths clouded by Cold War paranoia, and echoes of a desperate shoot-out along the Berlin Wall. From cozy book clubs to eerie sanatoriums, from village gossip to the specter of mass hysteria, the postcards become windows into crimes once deemed unsolvable.

In the tradition of golden-age detective fiction, Postcards of Forgotten Murders combines the charm of a countryside mystery with the intrigue of international secrets. With eight impossible locked-room puzzles at its heart, Dibyasree Nandy invites readers to step into a world where the past can only be solved by those willing to see it with fresh eyes.

 

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Contents

The Painted Postcards
1
After the Christmas Dinner
9
The Inquest at Clematis Avenue
16
Young Freddie
32
The Morisots At Work
37
Inspector Riley
46
Calls To And From Germany And Old Letters
53
St Ludwigs
65
Postcard 1 Edith McAllister
87
Postcard 2 Stephen Sinclair
104
Postcard 3 Natasha Smith
119
Postcard 4 Ruth Silverstein
133
Postcard 5 Rupert Grey
150
Postcard 6 John Winters
164
Postcard 7 Lisa Shepherd
175
Postcard 8 Samuel Duke
183

Louis Comes To Play
70
Gottfried Strauss
75
The Morisots Receive a Letter
195
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Dibyasree Nandy, M.Sc., M.Tech., is the author of numerous works, including The Labyrinth of Silent Voices: Epistles from the Mahabharata, Stardust: Haiku and Other Poems, Meteor Shower, Fireflies Beneath the Misty Moon, April Verses, Magic of the Eventyr, The Terrorist's Journal, An Upset Inkpot, Tabula Rasa, Fireworks upon a Cold Sea, An Atelier of Despair, Winter Plum, The Village of Wind, Red Soil, The Slate Blue-Eyed Hawk, and O Spring, Once-Beloved.

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