The Otto Loser Mysteries

This is a trailer for Anton’s Bark, the third and final audiobook in the Otto Loser Mysteries series. Anton’s Bark will be available to download from early January, 2022. The first two audiobooks, Something Borsuk Said and The Scarlet Godwins will continue to be available to download for free, wherever you get your podcasts. For further information please visit www.migrationbooks.com [http://www.migrationbooks.com]

This is the final episode of The Scarlet Godwins, and the second of Marley’s unsent letters. In it she is still waiting for Otto’s second coming. She had been expecting him to come back sooner. This twenty-first letter is Marley’s final revelation. She writes in it, that if Otto doesn’t visit her in prison again, he’ll never know what happened. But if he does come back, he will be sworn to secrecy. Otto is nearing the end of his long walk. The story of Izzy’s involvement in Marley’s case has come to its climax. It is a climax that did indeed provoke Otto into a second prison visit, this time without his daughter. It is during that visit that Marley passes Otto her second ‘unsent letter’. She recites the missing poem, Secret Scarlet, and tells Otto what really happened to her sister. Finally, the question of whether Otto should be sworn to secrecy is answered.

Marley recounts the story of Otto’s first prison visit, with Izzy by his side, posing as his assistant. But Marley is too perceptive not to have noticed that there was more to her solicitor and his ‘assistant’ than met the eye. Very proud of herself she hints officially that she slipped her solicitor a secret nineteenth letter. Otto, thinking about all of this, still on his ramble, has left the beach, and is back in town. His reflections initially take him to the day before that first prison visit, which was the first full day he spent with his daughter. By then, Izzy had read the eighteen letters that Otto had received from Marley, which prompted a list of questions. She had begun to formulate a theory of her own.

This is the first of Marley’s unsent letters, where the twisted truth begins to come out. It begins by telling Otto of his prison visits, as they had been foretold. On the first of these, Marley prophecies that she will be able to slip her unsent letter into his pocket. It is part of her prophecy that this unsent letter, full of revelations, will have Otto rushing back for his second coming. As he walks along a beach, Otto recalls how easily Izzy became involved in Marley’s case, and how he tried to resist her ideas about it.

Marley prepares for Otto’s first prison visit, something she found out about through a ‘little birdie’. The trouble with corresponding with your solicitor from a prison cell, she is ever at pains to point out, is that there are others snooping on your mail. In this important letter Marley recites the suggestive poem called Two Birds. Beyond that, she discloses that there is another all-revealing poem called Secret Scarlet. Meanwhile, Otto’s long walk has taken to him the wistful memories he has of meeting his daughter in London for the first time in nearly twenty-years.