This is the third book in the Spence series.
Lady Dinnister of Marlby Manor is elderly, but there is a lot of life in her yet. When a barbed bouquet of red roses pierces her palm, she thinks it is a nasty accident. When the front wheel comes off her Rolls-Royce, she views it as a mechanical mishap. But when her hairdryer turns into a lethal weapon, she decides that someone is trying to kill her.
Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Spence suspects that Lady Dinnister is right. But when a murder finally does occur at Marlby Manor, it isn’t Lady Dinnister who turns up dead.
‘Beguiling entertainment in the traditional style.’ Kirkus Reviews USA
‘Spence deftly solves this upper-class underhanded murder in a thrill-a-page plot.’ Booklist
‘Of all current novelists, Michael Allen comes closest to recreating Agatha Christie’s work from the 1930s.’ Virginian Pilot
