Light the Fireworks Beat the Drum

Time to celebrate the 14th Mrs Charles Murder Mystery, DON’T TELL LOUIE, which, due to a great many circumstances beyond my control, has taken me much longer than usual to complete.
Those three cryptic words – Don’t Tell Louie – prove to be Mrs Charles’s biggest challenge which, initially, she had strong personal reservations about accepting but, finally, agreed to undertake despite an increasing awareness that she was faced with a masterly contrived conspiracy against which she has little, if any, hope of exposing.
To those faithful readers of my Mrs Charles Murder Mysteries, just follow the cat’s paw prints, but whatever you do— DON’T TELL LOUIE.