Scarlett and Viv are asked to restore a hat that their
Aunt Mim made years before. They promise an estimate
will be delivered quickly. But when Scarlett can't reach
the bride to be, she tracks her down at her workplace.
Scarlett finds Ariana cowering in a corner of the back
garden.
Ariana's employer is dead, after falling or being pushed
from the roof of the building. The place immediately
take Ariana into custody. Scarlett is convinced that no
one with the good taste to want to wear one of Mim's hats
on their wedding day could be a killer.
Scarlett starts tracking down who else might have had a
movtive for killing the famous lawyer, Anthony Russo. As
she and Viv collaborate on the investigation, they learn
there are many people who might have wanted Russo dead
but much of the evidence still points to Ariana.
With Ariana in prison and the wedding coming up, Scarlett
doesn't have a lot of time to solve the mystery of the
this death.
Ms. McKinlay has another winner on her hands. AT THE
DROP OF A HAT will have the reader laughing as Scarlett
and
Viv get drunk as they interview an old girlfriend of Mr.
Russo. The interaction between the characters is amusing
and Scarlett's attempts to discover why Viv won't date
are dismal failures.
The surprise ending will leave readers anxiously awaiting
the next book in the series. I can't wait to follow
Scarlett through her next set of adventures.
From the New York Times bestselling author of
the
Library Lover’s Mysteries and Death of a Mad Hatter
comes a tale of hat shop owners who put a cap on
crime.
MURDER CAN BE SO OLD HAT
Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s
fashionable London hat shop, Mim’s Whims, is visited by a
new customer bearing an old hat box. Ariana Jackson is
getting married and wants to restore her mother’s bridal
hat
and veil for the occasion. The elegant item was made by
Scarlett and Vivian’s grandmother over thirty years ago,
so
Viv is delighted to take the job.
When
Scarlett
goes to Ariana's office to consult about the restoration
cost, she finds her outside, standing over her boss’s dead
body. Though Ariana claims to know nothing about his
demise,
the investigation unveils a motive for murder. Now, with
the
bride-to-be in custody and the wedding on hold, Scarlett
and
Viv must find the real killer before Ariana's future is
boxed up for good.
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