It’s June, 1922 and the wedding of Phoebe Renshaw and Owen Seabright is at hand. Eva Huntford, Phoebe’s lady’s maid, is excited for them. But her beau, Constable Miles Brannock has not shown up and Eva is concerned. It turns out he missed the festivities because he found Chief Inspector Perkins dead in his home, shot by his own gun.
Before Miles makes much investigative progress, a Scotland Yard detective arrives and focuses on Miles as the murderer.
Phoebe and Owen postpone their honeymoon to help Eva and Miles, but it’s not an easy task to find so cunning a killer.
The author has created a interesting mystery with a plethora of suspects, any of whom could be the murderer. Her descriptions are vivid and take the reader right to the early twentieth century, with its social mores, class divisions and loyalties.
This is part of a series, but is very well able to be read on its own with characters and relationships well introduced to the reader.
4 stars
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