Filled with deceptions both real and imagined, Death Sits
Down to Dinner is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in
London.
Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an
invitation to a dinner party hosted by her close friend
Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England's largest
charity. Hermione has pulled together a select gathering to
celebrate Winston Churchill's 39th birthday. Some of the
oldest families in the country have gathered to toast the
dangerously ambitious and utterly charming First Lord of
the Admiralty. But when the dinner ends, one of the
gentlemen remains seated at the table, head down among the
walnut shells littering the cloth and a knife between his
ribs.
Summoned from Iyntwood, Mrs. Jackson helps her
mistress trace the steps of suspects both upstairs and
downstairs as Hermione's household prepares to host a
highly anticipated charity event. Determined to get to the
bottom of things, Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson unravel the
web of secrecy surrounding the bright whirlwind of London
society, investigating the rich, well-connected and seeming
do-gooders in a race against time to stop the murderer from
striking again.