Book description
Superintendent Perry Trethowan was used to cases that involved people
in high places, and in this one he finds himself at the top of the tree
- among the British royals. A Princess, albeit only a minuscule royal
offshoot, with a snug little apartment in Kensington Palace and a snug
little sum on the Civil List, is threatened - but by whom, why, and
exactly what is uncertain. Her circle consists mostly of boy-friends,
and they are a motley lot, drawn from the worlds of politics, the stage,
even the football field. But are they endangered too or are they part of
the threat? The Princess (fresh as morning dew, and much more
treacherous) trips gaily through the minefield, while around her men
keep dying. But blood will out, especially blue blood, and by the time
Perry Trethowan gets to the bottom of the case, a murderer has been
brought to justice and not a few reputations tremble in the scales.
Robert Barnard's ability to create entertaining plots in the classic
tradition was recognised through multiple nominations for Edgar Awards
in the States, and he received the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award
for a lifetime of achievement. Robert Barnard is a well-established
crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as well as the
Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has been nominated eight times for
the Edgar Award and was the winner of the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond
Dagger Award for a lifetime of achievement. He has also written crime
novels under the pseudonym of Bernard Bastable. He lives with his wife
in Leeds and has had over 45 titles published in the UK and US.
