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.