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Mary Mulligan is in quite the pickle. Not only has she flogged the same small boat to seventeen separate customers (a personal best), but she's only just discovered it belongs to Uego Paramour-local crime queenpin, cultural menace, and woman not best pleased when people sell her belongings out from under her nose. Now Mary's on the run through the winding alleys of The Rook, with Paramour's top assassin, Charlie ""Braces""-a man with too many crossbows and not enough chill-hot on her trail. Worse, Mary also happens to be the sole witness to the sudden and rather dramatic demise of a woman who appeared to be minding her own business... while floating past on a magical umbrella. As hiding places go, Mary's current situation is both unexpected and deeply inconvenient: She appears to have accidentally become a nanny. She's not quite sure how, but the pay is decent, and the disguise has held - so far. Unfortunately, the children are hideous. A peculiar man named Albert with a questionable accent has started following her about. The umbrella is once again stolen. And there is, for reasons best not examined too closely, a penguin named Fishy Dave living in the nursery. The fact that it sounds just like a donkey is neither here nor there. And if all that wasn't bad enough, she keeps bursting into song. Against her will. It's a chase! It's a heist! It's a nanny-led crime spree with jazz hands! Hold on to your parasols, it's... Superfloppylazywhineybratalocodocious!

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Ex-drummer, Ex-software author and Ex-flares wearer Michael White was born and lives in the northwest of England. In a previous life he was the author of many text adventure games that were popular in the early 1980's. Realising that the creation of these games was in itself a form of writing he has since made the move into self-publishing, resulting in many short stories and novellas. Covering an eclectic range of subjects, the stories fall increasingly into that ""difficult to categorise"" genre, causing on-going headaches for the marketing department of his one man publishing company, Eighth Day Publishing. Having accidentally sacked his marketing director (himself) three times in the last two years, he has now retired to a nice comfortable room where, if he behaves himself, they leave him to write in peace. In his spare time (!) Michael likes to listen to all kinds of music, and is a big fan of Steven Moffat, whether he likes it or not. Michael is currently working on several new projects and can be contacted on my own website at http: //mikewhiteauthor.wordpress.com or via twitter on @mikewhiteauthor

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