Meet Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings the young, lovely, scatter brained and kindhearted newlywed wife to Andrew, the vicar of St Marks parish in Glanville, Sussex. When it comes to matters clerical, she is rather at sea. Nevertheless, she is determined to make her husband proud of her or at least not to embarrass him too badly. When, on Christmas Eve, Andrews unpopular, blackmailing curate gets himself murdered, things all get a bit (hilariously) overwhelming for poor outofherdepth Lady Lupin Who was in your sitting room during that interval? Say fourthirty on Tuesday, and ten or eleven yesterday morning? If you had ever lived in a vicarage you wouldnt ask questions like that people just walk in and out all day long. When Andrew asked me to marry him, he said he was afraid I should find it very quiet here, and what he meant I cant imagine! If I wanted quiet Id rather retire to the Tower of Babel with a saxophone. Lupin enlists old society pals Duds and Tommy Lethbridge, as well as Andrews nephew, a British secret service agent, to get at the truth. Lupin refuses to believe that Diana Lloyd, 38yearold author of the childrens detective stories, couldve done the deed and casts her net over the other parishioners. But all the suspects seem so nice very much more so than the victim. Who Killed the Curate was first published in 1944 and was the first of four murder mysteries penned by Joan Coggin (18981980). Dancing with Death (1947) was reissued most successfully by Galileo in...

Binding: Paperback;322 pages; Publisher: Galileo Publishers; Classification: FF; Weight: 378 g; Dimensions: 131 x 203 x 24

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