Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling (2023) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

P.J. Fitzsimmons' Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling (2023) is the seventh historical locked room comedy in the Anthony "Anty" Boisjoly series, sporting a title that could have been used for an episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, but "longer and more involved" than previous entries – which "took appreciably longer to complete." Fitzsimmons noted in the afterword it took long enough to start receiving messages asking if he had given up writing. So Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling was not quite the quick read as the previous novels, but therefore no less amusing and entertaining.Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling finds Anty Boisjoly, Vickers and apprentice valet Pendurby staying as guests at Ficklehouse House overlooking the forestry town of Ficklehouse Felling. Anty's cousin, Ripley Quillfeather, is engaged to Fabricia Ficklehouse and there something of a family get together at the ancestral seat of the Ficklehouse forestry firm that include…