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?A well-crafted mystery combines with whimsical characters to create an imaginative spoof on the classic locked-room mystery.? Publishers Weekly

A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery
Kensington
April 2004
Featuring: Lady Prunella; Simon Kirby-Jones; Giles
288 pages
ISBN: 075820485X
Hardcover
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Not everyone can claim both Hercule Poirot and Nancy Drew
as inspiration. Of course, not everyone is a vampire sleuth
from the States who pulled up stakes to live in a small
English village. Even the eccentric denizens of Snupperton
Mumsley might be surprised by Simon Kirby-Jones’s rather
unusual lifestyle. But murder is a more than adequate
distraction when a visiting celebrity meets his maker—and
Simon must suss out a killer…

Hardly one to become star-struck, Simon nevertheless deigns
to attend a tea at Blitherington Hall in honor of celebrity
interior designer Zeke Harwood, star of the popular
television show, Très Zeke. The self-acclaimed King of Home
Decorating makes it immediately obvious that he’s there to
give the drawing room a makeover—not make friends.

So, it’s little shock to Simon when the drama-queen
decorator meets his demise; he’s only surprised it hasn’t
happened sooner. Now, in a locked-room puzzle worthy of
Agatha Christie, Simon must peel away layers of lies to
reveal who killed the decorator in the drawing room with a
blunt instrument…