Lady Eleanor Swift has a special royal invitation. She’s got just the right dress and the perfect plus one… But wait! Is that a body by the throne?
Lady Eleanor Swift is at Buckingham Palace to see her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Seldon, knighted. Brimming with pride, all she can hope is that Gladstone the bulldog behaves himself in front of the king.
But the happy day is overshadowed when Dilly Dalrymple, a royal guard, collapses. The head of the royal police asks Eleanor and Hugh to investigate the murder – unofficially. This is her first clue that there’s more to the story…
Donning a disguise as a journalist for a well-to-do magazine, Eleanor, with butler Clifford posing as her photographer, interviews the high-profile guests and residents at the palace. She wasn’t expecting gossiping wives, affairs aplenty and talk of long-lost treasure! Was Dilly killed to settle an old score or was he perhaps a little too close to someone else’s wife?
But when another soldier is murdered at midnight, hours after the palace gates are locked, Eleanor knows she needs to keep her wits about her… And when everyone seems to have a reason to lie, can Eleanor dig up the truth before it’s her head next?
A totally gripping royal whodunnit full of twists, set in 1920s London. Fans of T.E. Kinsey, Catherine Coles, and Lee Strauss will be utterly obsessed!
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Favorite Quotes:
The other guests had sensed something was up and started idling over in that English way of gawking while pretending they weren’t.
But do call me Bibby. I’m ancient enough now to be resigned to it.
We women have a knack of adding as much elastic to time as we need, don’t you agree?
My Review:
Verity Bright never fails to conjure the most amusing and cleverest of cozy mysteries that manage to keep the little pea in my brain relentlessly spinning. A brain like Clifford’s, the most unflappable, wryly humorous, and overprepared butler of all time, is required to unpack and solve these conundrums. But I do love trying.
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