When the Duke of Purbeck throws a house party to celebrate his daughter's twenty-first birthday and present her with a family heirloom, nobody expects that the weekend will end in murder. The fabled Belsingham pearls have a history steeped in blood and slaughter dating back more than a century—and now it seems they've claimed another life, when the interfering and opinionated Professor Coddington is found dead in the library with the pearls clutched in his hand. It looks like a robbery gone wrong, but then why didn't the thief take the necklace? And how did he escape unnoticed, given that half the guests were seemingly wandering around the house at the time of the murder?
House guest Freddy Pilkington-Soames has enough on his plate already, with a lecherous nuisance of a grandfather to keep an eye on, a girlfriend his mother disapproves of, and an ex-girlfriend who's engaged to another man but shows signs of changing her mind. But with a killer on the loose in the house, it's time to forget his own troubles and rise to the occasion—or risk a scandal that could destroy the reputation of his whole family.
© 2019 Mount Street Press (Ljudbok): 9781094299082
© 2021 Mount Street Press (E-bok): 6610000313693
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 april 2019
E-bok: 13 oktober 2021
When the Duke of Purbeck throws a house party to celebrate his daughter's twenty-first birthday and present her with a family heirloom, nobody expects that the weekend will end in murder. The fabled Belsingham pearls have a history steeped in blood and slaughter dating back more than a century—and now it seems they've claimed another life, when the interfering and opinionated Professor Coddington is found dead in the library with the pearls clutched in his hand. It looks like a robbery gone wrong, but then why didn't the thief take the necklace? And how did he escape unnoticed, given that half the guests were seemingly wandering around the house at the time of the murder?
House guest Freddy Pilkington-Soames has enough on his plate already, with a lecherous nuisance of a grandfather to keep an eye on, a girlfriend his mother disapproves of, and an ex-girlfriend who's engaged to another man but shows signs of changing her mind. But with a killer on the loose in the house, it's time to forget his own troubles and rise to the occasion—or risk a scandal that could destroy the reputation of his whole family.
© 2019 Mount Street Press (Ljudbok): 9781094299082
© 2021 Mount Street Press (E-bok): 6610000313693
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 april 2019
E-bok: 13 oktober 2021
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Isabelle
3 dec. 2023
Suspenseful and witty, with amusing characters and delectable language! In the fourth FP-S instalment truly classical whodunnit themes are tackled - the house party, the substituted jewels, the family pile with secret passages. And the result is a well wrought mystery, invigorating and fresh as daisy! Very nicely read.
Sanyin
3 dec. 2020
Very funny murder story. Freddy P S tries to find the murderer at a house party. Great narrator!
Malin
31 mars 2023
Egentligen lite förutsägbar men språket och snobbigheten gör dem både underhållande och mysteriet är klurigt. Gillar både Pilkington-Soames och Angela Marchmont. Benson skriver bra!
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