A morning walk. A new lord, dead below Hartcombe Head. A killer among Lady Matilda’s weekend guests.
Lady Matilda has put together a small weekend party at Biddington Court to welcome Matthew Harding, the new Lord Dartcombe. The guest list is a handful of his old friends, and a few familiar village faces. Matthew has only been in Devon a fortnight. Someone thought that quite long enough.
The police are on their way from Torquay, but Matilda is already looking at her suspects across the breakfast table. The spurned almost-fiancée and her sharp-eyed mother. The too-decent cousin who stands to inherit. The solicitor with secrets of his own to keep. And Matilda’s own godfather, who arrived at Biddington Court already nursing a grievance. One of them is lying. One of them is a killer.
Can Matilda, with a little help from Hetty and plenty of canine encouragement from Wellington, uncover the killer beneath the roof of Biddington Court before another life is lost?
A warm, witty addition to the Lady Matilda Investigates series—atmospheric, cosy, and full of Devon coastal charm—following on from The Case in the Vicarage Gardens.
Readers of this series love:
- An aristocratic amateur sleuth with a growing reputation for solving murder
- A country house party mystery on the Devon coast
- A devoted basset hound and a hilariously muddled companion
- A new heir, a fortnight in the role, and a house full of suspects
- Family secrets, old grievances, and everyone with something to gain
The second in Lady Matilda Investigates—an atmospheric 1920s cosy mystery series set on the Devon coast, featuring widowed Lady Matilda Farnworth, her companion Miss Hetty Trelawny, and Wellington the Basset Hound.
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