In the Crypt With a Candlestick - Couverture rigide

Waugh, Daisy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1643138057 ISBN 13 : 9781643138053

Editeur : Pegasus Crime, 2021

Synopsis

A wonderfully comedic mystery full of sharp drama, sly wit--and a smidgeon of murder--in the vein P. G. Wodehouse, Julian Fellowes, and Agatha Christie.

Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age--much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at age ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil.

Lady Emma Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too mad, too lefty or too happy in Australia) to take on management of their large and important home, so the mantle passes to a distant relative and his glamorous wife.

Not long after the new owners take over, Lady Tode is found dead in the mausoleum. Accident? Or is there more going on behind the scenes of Tode Hall than an outsider would ever guess?

In the traditions of two great but very different British authors, Agatha Christie and P. G. Wodehouse, Waugh's hilarious and entirely original twist on the country house murder mystery comes complete with stiff upper lips, even stiffer drinks, and any stiffs that might embarrass the family getting smartly brushed under the carpet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daisy Waugh is the author of several historical novels plus a few contemporary comic novels, but this is her first book to be published in America. She lives not far from the River Thames in southwest London. To find out more, visit her website at: daisywaugh.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Crime
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643138057
• ISBN 13: 9781643138053
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible