Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings
Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings sends Max back to ancient Egypt with a specific and dangerous task: recover a loaded gun left in the past.
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Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings sends Max back to ancient Egypt with a specific and dangerous task: recover a loaded gun left in the past. Someone might fire it before the historians can intervene, with consequences reaching well beyond the immediate accident.
Meanwhile, Max has poisoned Markham unintentionally. Heat, dwindling supplies and the missing weapon make a difficult expedition still harder.
Our view: this premise is a good choice for readers who enjoy the machinery of a St Mary's crisis. The problem is concrete, the clock matters and the team's own mistakes compete with the danger they came to remove.
You can read the short story in its individual ebook edition or in The Long and the Short of It. The reading guide puts it after What Could Possibly Go Wrong? For audio, Zara Ramm's separate UK unabridged edition lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.
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- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? · St Mary’s
- Lies, Damned Lies, and History · St Mary’s
- The Long and the Short of It · Standalone & collections
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- Shorter work in suggested sequence
- First published
- 2015 · publication source ↗
- Audiobook
- Zara Ramm · 1 hr 25 min
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UK Digital audio · English · Unabridged
Listed audio release: 10 December 2025.
UK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472264619 · released 1 January 2019
Publisher ebook sourceConfirmed premise: Publisher description ↗
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