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Fairyland - Comedy
By Brian Daunter ©
 

1914-18 (WW1), Britain’s greatest detective, Albert Holes, and his companion Dr. Roger Aston discover that the parallel dimension is Fairyland, and that they are interactive. The British Government’s stationary is stolen; the Foreign Secretary is a spy, with an interest in genital photography, and commits suicide. The Home Secretary, a descendant of Simple Simon, engages Holes and Aston to find out who is manipulating Europe to go to war. At the same time Old King Cole engages Holes and Aston on a similar problem in Fairyland. This involves the murder of Rudolph the Reindeer, The Grand Old Duke of York and The Duchess by Father Christmas (Nick), who is also trying to take over Fairyland with the Big Bad Wolf.

Are the Home Secretary and Holes’ House keeper spies for the Austro-Hungarian Intelligence Centre (AIC) or Fairyland AIC? The AIC becomes the London branch of the British pigeon fancier’s society. Holes and Aston are rescued by the Mad Hatter from the AIC who has sent in their top spy and he becomes a disturbed man after drinking a strong cup of tea, and suffers from time compression sickness. Is King Cole / Mr. E’loc a Serbian spy or the Antler murderer.

Is the night soil wagon a weapon of mass destruction that is about to go critical?). Have Holes and Aston fallen off their page.