The Penny Black Cipher

A Rare Coin Club Cozy Mystery

De: Maribel Quince

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Retired postmistress Hattie Venn only joined the Little Wexford Coin Club because the meetings served good biscuits and nobody asked her to explain why she lived alone. Then a Victorian penny with a blackened queen's profile appears in a donation tin, wrapped in a note that says one of the club's old catalogues is a map to murder. When the club treasurer is found dead before the village charity auction, the police see a heart attack and a room full of harmless collectors. Hattie sees a missing ledger, a forged mint mark, and seven people who know far too much about the value of small things. With the auction clock ticking, Hattie follows clues hidden in coin flips, stamp hinges, estate boxes, and the quiet rivalries of a hobby where everyone insists they are not in it for the money. The Penny Black Cipher is a clean, small-niche cozy mystery for readers who enjoy amateur sleuths, village auctions, collectors' clubs, numismatic clues, gentle humor, and puzzle mysteries where ordinary objects carry extraordinary secrets.