Free Dan Foster Short Stories

Hearth and Home: A Dan Foster Mystery – free short story

A young man has been saved from drowning in the Thames but has no memory of who he is or where he came from. When the man who rescued him is murdered on Christmas Eve, Bow Street Runner Dan Foster has to decide is the young man a murderer, or a victim?

Hearth and Home (A Dan Foster Mystery) (pdf document)

 

 

 

 

Picture Credit:

‘A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore.’ Engraving by R Pollard, 1787, after R Smirke, Wellcome Collection, Public Domain.

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The Volcano, or The Rival Harlequins, A Dan Foster Mystery – free short story

 

It’s December 1799 and the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden is presenting its Christmas pantomime. Dan Foster, Principal Officer of Bow Street, is on duty at the theatre to help keep order among the holiday crowds. What begins as a tedious assignment turns into a murder investigation when a stage trick goes horribly wrong. But how can Dan identify a murderer when all the suspects are experts in disguise and concealment?

 

The Volcano, or The Rival Harlequins (A Dan Foster Mystery) (pdf document)

 

 

 

Picture Credit:

Harlequin (one of a pair), c 1750-52, Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain