The Men in Dark Tweed were created on a whim while I was working on my current WIP novel, a Victorian Urban Fantasy entitled ’Lucifer Mandrake and the Hanoverian Proxy’ The new, somewhat nefarious Home Secretary sets up a plain clothes division of the young Metropolitan Police Force, reporting directly to him. They are a somewhat sinister group, because basically the main antagonist needed a bunch of shadow thugs…
They are however unerringly polite about it all…
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The Men in Dark Tweed have indeed made the leap from comic strip to short story and are featured in Mr Harvey Duckman Presents ‘ Folly and Madness’ along side stories by 11 other fabulous authors. We can almost certainly promise that if you buy a copy ( currently on preorder for the kindle version) you will not receive a visit from polite men in tweed of hushed sombre tones.
I can unfortunately make no such promises if you do not…
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