When a birthday party for one of their Hampstead neighbors turns deadly, Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne end up investigating the murder of one of Melisande Chevret's other guests. The aging actress becomes a natural suspect, as the victim was her love rival. But after the first murder, a second takes place at the Villa Byzantine. The owner of the house is royal biographer Tancred Vane, who swears he is incent. And surely Catherine Hope, an elderly lady helping him with his research, can have thing to do with it. A damning piece of evidence points to the victim's daughter--but why would that a teenage girl have a dainty silk handkerchief bearing her mogram? And would she drop it so conveniently beside her mother's body? As the questions mount, Antonia Darcy and Major Payne search desperately for answers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Soho Constable
ISBN-10
1569479143
ISBN-13
9781569479148
eBay Product ID (ePID)
191147419
Product Key Features
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,Cloth over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Author
R T Raichev
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
19/04/2011
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
R.T. Raichev is a researcher and writer who grew up in Bulgaria and wrote a university dissertation on English crime fiction. He is the author of six novels in the Antonia Darcy series and has lived in London since 1989.