Murder and Mystery in Wartime Falmouth: New Novel Brings Ghosts to Life

A new historical crime series set in Falmouth during World War One has been released by West Country author F. H. Petford.

A Ghostly Beginning

Fred is celebrating the publication of A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Solving a Murder, the first in the series published worldwide by Hodder and Stoughton. The story introduces readers to Miss Alma Timperley, who inherits a hotel on Swanpool Road early in the Great War – but soon discovers that her new guests are offered the chance to contact the dead.

Fred said, “Falmouth during the Great War is a perfect setting for a cosy crime mystery with a difference, and when Miss Alma Timperley inherits a hotel on Swanpool Road early in World War One, she gets more than she bargained for because hotel guests are offered the chance to contact the dead!”

Mystery at the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel

Inspired by the real surge in spiritualism during the Great War, the novel follows Alma as she takes over the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel. But when one of the maids is found dead, the question arises – is it a tragic wartime accident or something far more sinister?

Available Now

A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Solving a Murder is available worldwide from bookshops and online as a paperback, e-book, or audio book, published by Hodder and Stoughton. It can also be purchased on Amazon