Dancing with Death
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Publisher Description
In the first 1920s country house mystery featuring chef-sleuth Nell Drury, Nell gets caught up in a murder investigation when a body is discovered during Lord and Lady Ansleys’ extravagant fancy dress ball.
1925. The fashionable Bright Young Things from London have descended on Wychbourne Court, the Kentish stately home of Lord and Lady Ansley, for an extravagant fancy dress ball followed by a midnight Ghost Hunt – and Chef Nell Drury knows she’s in for a busy weekend. What she doesn’t expect to encounter is sudden, violent death.
When a body is discovered in the minstrels’ gallery during the Ghost Hunt, Nell finds herself caught up in the police investigation which follows. As the darker side of the Roaring Twenties emerges and it becomes increasingly clear that at least one person present that night has a sinister secret to hide, Nell determines to unmask the killer among them. Could the Wychbourne Ghosts hold the key to the mystery?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1925, Myers's winning series launch introduces 29-year-old Nell Drury, the Escoffier-trained chef for the aristocratic Ansleys at Wychbourne Court, their country house in Kent. At a party one evening, Nell and her well-trained staff provide a splendid dinner, which is followed by dancing and at midnight a tour of the stately home's not-so-stately ghosts. While conducting one of the two groups of ghost-hunting guests, Nell stumbles on the body of an old Ansley family friend, Charles Parkyn-Wright. But who would want to stab the inoffensive Charles multiple times? Practical, quick-witted Nell is a problem solver, as shown by her ability to put together a lunch for 30 at a moment's notice or sort out clues in a murder investigation. Scotland Yard's Det. Insp. Alexander Melbray, her sometime rival and sometime ally, makes an appealing foil. Myers (Classic at Bay and seven other Jack Colby car detective mysteries) offers a jolly entertainment while touching on such serious matters as class conflict.
