Book description
The Hopwicke Country House Hotel is to host an event for the all-male
society, The Pillars of Sussex. Jude helps out on the night, and in the
early hours of the morning she watches with relief as the rowdy guests
drag themselves to their beds. The next morning, one young solicitor is
absent from breakfast. But when Jude heads for Nigel Ackford's room,
presuming he is feeling the effects of the night before, she is
horrified to find him hanging from the beams of his four-poster bed . .
. Was it suicide? Jude has her doubts. Enlisting the support of her
neighbour, Carole, she makes some tentative enquiries. It soon
transpires that The Pillars of Sussex are involved in a conspiracy of
misinformation. 'Brett, the celebrated crime writer, delivers another
light-hearted, suspense filled success' Daily Express Simon Brett
worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing
full time. As well as the much-loved Fethering series, the Mrs Pargeter
novels and the Charles Paris detective series, he has written a number
of radio and television scripts. Married with three children, he lives
in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs.
