The Conkerbury Detectives: A Conkerbury Christmas
24 Advent mysteries and a Christmas Day finale for detectives aged 8 to 12.
It's December in Conkerbury, the snow is falling, and things keep going missing! Join Priya, Ollie, Ffion, Alfie and Biscuit the sausage dog for one gentle mystery every day of Advent. Then, on Christmas morning, the old silver star vanishes from the top of the church tree, and only the Secret Paper Chain can tell you who took it.
Book 2 isn’t on sale yet. It’s coming soon to Amazon in paperback. This page will link straight to it when it’s out.
What's inside
25 Christmas cases
- 24 Advent cases, one for every day from 1st December
- A Christmas Day finale: The Case of the Missing Star
- Harder as Christmas gets closer, from Rookie to Chief Inspector
Puzzles of every kind
- Suspect cards, village maps and timelines
- Logic grids, fibbing witnesses, a Christmas-lights code and a carol code
- The Secret Paper Chain: one letter from nine cases unlocks the finale
Help when you need it
- Hints for every case
- Answers printed upside down
- A detective certificate
- A secret Boxing Day bonus case on this site
Do one case a day like an advent calendar, or race through the lot. You don't need to have read book 1 first.
Exactly one answer
Every case has one answer, and it's fair. A computer solver checked every single one.
Nothing scary
Just missing mittens, swapped puddings and a magpie with a taste for tinsel. Nobody gets hurt, ever.
Hints, not spoilers
Stuck? Get a nudge from the hints in the book, or from the answer checker on this site.
| Title | The Conkerbury Detectives: A Conkerbury Christmas |
|---|---|
| Series | The Conkerbury Detectives (book 2) |
| Author | Inspector Cuthbert Conkerworth |
| Reading age | 8 to 12 years |
| Format | Paperback (coming soon on Amazon) |
| Paperback | 8.5 x 11 in, 120 pages, black and white, with space to write in |
| Language | English (British) |
About the author: Inspector Cuthbert Conkerworth has never lost a conker match, a case or a pencil sharpener. At Christmas he swaps his deerstalker for a woolly hat with a bobble on top.
Book 1: The Case of the Missing Conker Champion. 30 cases across one very British school year, from conker season to the summer fete. Available now in paperback on Amazon.