Five original Snerfs chase a runaway biscuit tin through a candlelit underground archive.

A Holdfast Press repository-integration test

Killer Snerfs

They have a plan. It is not a good plan.

Five Snerfs. One locked biscuit tin. Forty-seven feet of borrowed rope. The smallest literary crime of the century is about to go catastrophically right.

Cover of Killer Snerfs by R.J. Thornton
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Case file: absolutely not approved

The Crumb Job

Nobody had ever accused a Snerf of thinking too small.

This was mostly because nobody who had met a Snerf had survived the conversation with enough patience left to accuse one of anything. A Snerf could turn a request for the salt into a lecture on maritime law, a demonstration involving three pulleys, and a small but determined fire.

Gribble considered this a strength.

"Again," he said, tapping the blueprint with the handle of a bent teaspoon. "At precisely midnight, the night editor leaves the biscuit tin unattended. Nackle descends from the poetry shelf. Wump disables the alarm. Tink operates the lift. I retrieve the objective."

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Book ID
killer-snerfs
Chapter ID
chapter-01
Source words
632
Status
Integration test edition