Murder by Telegram (The Little Fennington Mysteries)

Every telegram that comes into Little Fennington passes first through Peggy Ashdown’s ear at the sub-post office counter. In autumn 1952 one arrives on the evening of the harvest supper, and it kills Walter Pegler of Hill Farm. A cosy village mystery novella with a shopkeeper sleuth, a village full of secrets and a cat asleep on the parcel scales.