Book description
When obscure crime writer Ethelred Tressider vanishes, his dogged
literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, is soon on his trail. Finding him (in
a ramshackle hotel in the French Loire) proves surprisingly easy.
Bringing him home proves more difficult than expected - but (as Elsie
observes) who would have predicted that, in a hotel full of stamp
collectors, the guests would suddenly start murdering each other?
One guest is found fatally stabbed, apparently the victim of an
intruder. But when a rich Russian oligarch also dies, in a hotel now
swarming with policemen, suspicion falls on the remaining guests.
Elsie is torn between her natural desire to interfere in the police
investigation and her urgent need to escape to the town’s chocolaterie.
Ethelred, meanwhile, seems to know more about the killings than he is
letting on. Finally the time comes when Elsie must assemble the various
suspects in the Dining Room, and reveal the truth . . . Ten Little Herrings
is a brilliantly anarchic take on the classic Country House Mystery,
and an uproarious sequel to the first Elsie and Ethelred mystery, The
Herring Seller’s Apprentice
.
Praise for The Herring Seller’s Apprentice
, the first Elsie and Ethelred Mystery:
‘Masterful’ Financial Times
‘A classic detective novel’ Scotsman
‘Unusually accomplished’ Helen Dunmore
L. C. Tyler was born in Essex and educated in Southend and at Oxford
University. He has worked in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sudan, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden and Finland. He currently lives in Islington with his
wife, children and border terrier.
