The Royal Tunbridge Wells Mystery #1
Barbour Books
November 2004
On Sale: November 1, 2004
352 pages ISBN: 159310197X EAN: 9781593101978 Kindle: B004Q9U18W Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Murder is afoot is the sedate English city of Royal Tunbridge Wells β¦ and the crime may be brewing in a tea pot!
Nigel Owen is having a rotten year. Downsized from a cushy management job at an insurance company in London, he is forced to accept a temporary post as managing director of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum. Alas, he regrets living in a small city in Kent, he prefers drinking coffee (with a vengeance), and he roundly dislikes Flick Adams, PhD, an American scientist recently named the museumβs curator.
But then, the wildly unexpected happens. Dame Elspeth Hawker, the museumβs chief benefactor, keels over a board meetingβthe apparent victim of a fatal heart attack. With the Dameβs demise, the museumβs world-famous collection is up for grabs, her cats, dog, and parrot are living at with Flick and Nigelβand the two prima donnas find themselves facing professional ruin.
But Flickβwho knows a thing or two about forensic scienceβis convinced that Dame Elspeth did not die a natural death. As Flick and Nigel follow the cluesβincluding a cryptic Biblical citationβthey discover that a crime perpetrated more than a century ago sowed the seeds for a contemporary murder.
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