#1 New York Timesbestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of mysterious death, feuding families, starcrossed loversand shoes to die for.With her husband, amateursleuth the Honorable Barnaby Adair, decidedly eccentric fashionable matron Penelope Adair is attending the premier event opening the haut tons Season when a body is discovered in the gardens. A lady has been struck down with a finial from the terrace balustrade. Her family is present, as are the cream of the haut tonthe shocked hosts turn to Barnaby and Penelope for help. Barnaby calls in Inspector Basil Stokes and they begin their investigation. Penelope assists by learning all she can about the victims family, and uncovers a feud between them and the Latimers over the fabulous shoes known as Lady Latimers shoes, currently exclusive to the Latimers. The deeper Penelope delves, the more convinced she becomes that the murder is somehow connected to the shoes. She conscripts Griselda, Stokess wife, and Violet Montague, now Penelopes secretary, and the trio set out to learn all they can about the people involved, and most importantly the shoes, a direction vindicated when unexpected witnesses report seeing a lady fleeing the scenewearing Lady Latimers shoes. But nothing is as it seems, and the more Penelope and her friends learn about the shoes, conundrums abound, compounded by a RomeoandJuliet romance and escalating social pressureuntil at last the pieces fall into place, and finally understanding what...

Binding: Paperback;226 pages; Publisher: Savdek Management Pty Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 388.07 g; Dimensions: N/A

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