Buckingham Palace Gardens Author:Anne Perry The Prince of Wales has aked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their elegant wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic iea: the construction of a six-thousan-mile railrood that would stretch the full length of Africa. But alas, the prince's gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic(after the ... more »wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queen's monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet.
With great hast, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summond to resolve the crisis. The Pitts' cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests' conversations, scan their bedrooms and scrutinize their troubled face3s for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have led to the murder, If pitt and Gracie fail to fin out who brutally murdered the young woman as seems increasingly likely Pitt's career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall« less