Murder Takes a Turn
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A country house weekend in rural Cornwall ends in murder and mayhem for crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham and his wife Maria.
“It’s time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right? What happened … happened a long time ago.”
When Langham’s literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly forty years before – and why has it had such a devastating effect on Charles?
Accompanying his agent to Connaught House, Langham and his wife Maria discover that Charles is not the only one to have received a letter. But why has Denbigh Connaught gathered together a group of people who each bear him a grudge?
When a body is discovered in Connaught’s study, the ensuing investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and every guest – including Charles Elder himself …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brown's charming fifth mystery set in 1950s England (after 2017's Murder Take Three) takes part-time private detective and full-time mystery writer Donald Langham and his literary agent wife, Maria Dupr , from London to Cornwall, where egocentric novelist Denbigh Connaught has invited five people he has wronged in the past to a weekend at his estate. Among those he wishes to apologize to is Charles Elder, Maria's partner in the literary agency, who has painful memories of his school days with Connaught 40 years earlier. Connaught's daughter, Annabelle, has asked Donald to investigate her father's business manager, Wilson Royce, whom she doesn't trust. Soon the guests are assembled at Connaught House, where drinks flow freely, personalities clash, and their host is just as brusque and self-absorbed as ever. When a body is discovered in the locked study, readers are presented with not only a whodunit but also a howdunit. Some delightfully old-fashioned slang enlivens the dialogue. Fans of traditional country house mysteries will be gratified.
