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The constricted society of an English village and the uneasy relationships between its natives and newcomers, especially pretentious weekenders, is carefully and forcefully etched in the return of writer Sheila Malory, seen before in Mrs. Malory Investigates . The annual Taviscombe Festival, once a simple affair with local performers, is appropriated and aggrandized beyond recognition by new resident Adrian Palgrave. A poet and biographer of little renown, Palgrave has been named literary executor for writer and man-of-the-world Lawrence Meredith, a leading literary figure of the 1920s and 30s. When Palgrave is found battered to death during the first performance of the festival, suspects are not scarce. The unpleasant poet was wont to proclaim any peccadillos he came across, including those he discovered in Meredith's letters. TV documentary-maker Oliver Stevens fears disclosure of an affair, and young Robin Turner, treasurer for the festival, had been tongue-lashed frequently by the dead man. Two other deaths and an attempt to destroy Meredith's papers lead Taviscombe resident Sheila to search for long-held secrets that bred fatal consequences.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
From Kirkus Reviews
A village fˆte, a stately home and its residents, and a literary curmudgeon all figure prominently in the latest adventure of West County author and amateur sleuth Sheila Malory (The Cruellest Month; Mrs. Malory Investigates). When obstreperous Adrian Palgrave, who's unexpectedly been named literary executor of Laurence Meredith's unpublished letters and papers, is murdered on the opening night of the Taviscombe festival, suspects abound- -including poor Robin, the festival treasurer, whom Palgrave humiliated; pregnant Jessie, who was abandoned by him; and Oliver, whose affair Palgrave was about to reveal. Robin then disappears and later surfaces as a suicide, and Palgrave's widow, Enid, announces that she'll now edit the Meredith material--and promptly dies in a suspicious fire. Sheila and her friend's son Roger, a homicide inspector, try to establish a timetable for everyone's movements at the festival, but it's their delving into certain family secrets that finally reveals a (dubious) motive and implicates the guilty. Familiar, cozy fare that entertains right up to the end--when it collapses under a bit of mawkishness. Traditionalists, however, will probably be most forgiving, particularly when they discover the appearance of their favorite murder weapon--the dented candlestick. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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