God Save the Queen!
Synopsis
Blending murder and mayhem with an irresistible sense of fun, Dorothy Cannell serves up wildly entertaining mysteries that are so dangerously addictive they should carry a warning label. Now the award-winning author of The Thin Woman and How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams takes her trademark lunacy to its absolute limit with an inspired whodunit that begins with an age-old grudge--and a brand-new corpse.
God Save The Queen!
At gloomy Gossinger Hall, where the chill of centuries calls for three sweaters, Sir Henry Gossinger has just dropped a bombshell. After hours of unexplained penance on his knees in the chapel, he has announced to his unwitting relatives that he has written a new will... bequeathing everything to his devoted butler, Hutchins. Not since the days of George III, when roguish Sir Rowland Gossinger was accused of stealing the queen's silver tea strainer, has such a scandal threatened the family honor. But worse is yet to come.
For Hutchins is missing, and it soon becomes apparent that the only thing the distinguished butler will inherit is a place in the cemetery. Found head down in the principal fixture of the twelfth-century privy, he may have been the victim of foul play. And what could Hutchins have meant by his dying words, "God save the Queen"?
To Flora, the deceased's sweet young granddaughter, Hutchins's death is a tragic loss. Raised by him in Gossinger Hall, she remembers her grandfather's dedication to the noble Gossingers--including Sir Henry's social-climbing wife--and all the stately legends he told her over the silver polish. Only a new life in London, and the kindness of Vivian Gossinger, nephew and former heir to Sir Henry, can ease her pain.
Yet soon Gossinger Hall's history of treachery and intrigue--topped by the ongoing rift with the Royal Family regarding the long-lost tea strainer--casts its shadow over Flora. And suddenly she finds herself caught in a murderously tangled web, where even a familiar face could hide the heart of a cold-blooded killer.
Delicious characters, a killer of a plot, and new heights of hilarity make God Save the Queen! Dorothy Cannell's most wickedly diabolical mystery yet.
- Copyright:
- 1997 Dorothy Cannell
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780553101638
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 2010-01-25T07:18:33Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.