Death in Fancy Dress
An exuberant mystery story from the celebrated author of successful Crime Classic Portrait of a Murderer, this title has an excellent sense of humour and attention to 1930s period detail. It includes the rare short story âThe Cockroach and the Tortoiseâ and âHorseshoes for Luckâ featuring the same villain of the main novel, The Spider.
The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind âThe Spiderâ, find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the nightâs activities and the motives of the other guests.
Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bearâŠ
This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre over-hang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.
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Death in Fancy Dress
Death in Fancy Dress
An exuberant mystery story from the celebrated author of successful Crime Classic Portrait of a Murderer, this title has an excellent sense of humour and attention to 1930s period detail. It includes the rare short story âThe Cockroach and the Tortoiseâ and âHorseshoes for Luckâ featuring the same villain of the main novel, The Spider.
The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind âThe Spiderâ, find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the nightâs activities and the motives of the other guests.
Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bearâŠ
This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre over-hang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.
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An exuberant mystery story from the celebrated author of successful Crime Classic Portrait of a Murderer, this title has an excellent sense of humour and attention to 1930s period detail. It includes the rare short story âThe Cockroach and the Tortoiseâ and âHorseshoes for Luckâ featuring the same villain of the main novel, The Spider.
The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind âThe Spiderâ, find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the nightâs activities and the motives of the other guests.
Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bearâŠ
This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre over-hang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.
