We all did things during Lockdown that we never thought we'd do. Me? I was inspired to write a 1940s murder mystery set in Erdington, the UK. And when people really liked it, I wrote a sequel as well.

 

I am a huge fan of the classic 1930s and 1940s mysteries - and Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Inspired by a series of adverts I discovered in some old editions of the Picture Post magazine, The Custard Corpses took shape.

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For those of you who read my Saxon stories, yes, Erdington would have been part of Mercia in the Saxon era, so I didn't really stray from familiar territory.