The Fright Before Christmas (short story)

The Fright Before Christmas was a free short story released by Candy Jar Books in 2015.

Summary
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Characters

 * Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Corporal Sally Wright
 * General Trubshawe
 * Corporal Woodley
 * Charles Wyvern
 * Dolores Wyvern
 * Guthrie
 * Officer Watkins
 * DI Meadows

Worldbuilding

 * Lethbridge-Stewart dresses up in a Father Christmas costume from Hamleys.
 * Canapés, champagne, and mince pies are served at the party at The Dorchester.
 * Woodley is stationed at the Lovell Telescope, part of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories.
 * Charles and Dolores are going to Harrods in Knightsbridge.
 * Two bodies are found near Marble Arch.
 * Guthrie sells roasted chestnuts.
 * Sally gets Alistair a painting kit of military figures from the Scots Guards who fought in the Peninsular War in 1809.
 * A group of carolers sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
 * Lethbridge-Stewart speculates the alien sphere comes from the USSR or Korea.

Continuity

 * Lethbridge-Stewart is engaged to Sally Wright. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)