Dolores Gordon-Smith
"Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age of writers."--Robert Barnard
It's the height of summer, 1923. At a ball in Sussex, former Royal Flying Corps pilot Jack Haldean investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries becomes involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture, and more murder, Jack will face an agonizing
Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith:
"With vision and vigor, Gordon-Smith pulls off another Golden Age delight."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A classic postwar country-house mystery with a Christie-like denouement."--Kirkus Reviews
"Dorothy Sayers fans will be most rewarded."--Publishers Weekly
Freezing and hungry, George Lassiter breaks into a stranger's house where he witnesses a murder. But when