Coffeetown Press
April 2010
On Sale: April 19, 2010
180 pages ISBN: 1603810463 EAN: 9781603810463 Kindle: B003UBPAWE Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Writer Sheila Malory, seen before in Mrs. Malory Investigates and other mysteries, visits the annual Taviscombe Festival, which has been appropriated and aggrandized by Adrian Palgrave, a poet and biographer of little renown. Palgrave, who has been named literary executor for writer and man-of-the-world Lawrence Meredith, a leading literary figure of the 1920s and 30s, is found beaten to death during the first performance of the festival, and suspects are all around. TV documentary-maker Oliver Stevens fears disclosure of an affair. Young Robin Turner, treasurer for the festival, had been criticized frequently by the dead poet Two other deaths and an attempt to destroy Meredith's papers lead Sheila to search for long-held secrets that bred fatal consequences.
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