Madness sang “Tomorrow’s just another day.” Great song, but completely wrong.

The theme from The Littlest Hobo (covered rather beautifully by Kate Rusby) was called “Maybe Tomorrow”. No, not maybe but definitely…

The Shirelles sang “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” Well, almost certainly, but it does depend on what you go out and buy…

Annie sang “The sun will come out tomorrow.” Almost certainly true, but that’s not the only thing that is coming out tomorrow…

Yes, he’s back. Anthony Lotherington Bathurst, suave detective and huge fan of using ten words when one would do, is back with five new reprints of books that, as far as I can tell, have never been reprinted before. Never!

You might think to yourself, is that because they’re not very good, but you’d be completely wrong. Hey, even the Daily Mail likes “When Cauldron Bubble” (someone showed me the link, I don’t read that “newspaper”).

The five titles in question are:

Men For Pieces – in which an almost perfect murder is solved because the murderer was careless about where they put a bath plug…

Black Agent – in which a woman disappears without trace from a village dance. Weeks later, someone is spotted wearing the same bright yellow dress – and then they vanish too…

Where There Was Smoke – a Crofts-ian tale of a criminal conspiracy laid low by a piece of bacon rind and a tin of Alphabetti Spaghetti.

And Cauldron Bubble – one elderly woman disappears, the other is found dead. But why did the murderer leave a theatrical wig underneath the dead body?

The Ring Of Innocent – “Innocent”. “Teaspoon”. An overheard conversation in a theatre leads to a bizarre dying message, sending Bathurst on a hunt for both treasure and a murderer.

If you are new to the phenomenon that is Brian Flynn, then here is the link to an article that I wrote for Dean Street Press about how Brian was resurrected from obscurity.

These are books 36 to 40 in the Bathurst canon, but the books can be read in any order. If you want to take a look at what has gone before, then this article lists the books that I most want to re-read, although it doesn’t include some titles that I’ve already read several times, so definitely add The Mystery Of The Peacock’s Eye, The Murders Near Mapleton and Tread Softly to that list. Or indeed, any of the ones that I haven’t mentioned. All forty are available from Dean Street Press, many using the original cover art from the books.

So, set your watches to 12:01 am, Tuesday 1^st July 2025. Bathurst is back – buy these and I’ll see what I can do about revealing the secret of The Seventh Sign, The Running Nun, Out Of The Dusk, The Feet Of Death and a Dancing Doll in the future…