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The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion, Bk 15)
The Estate of the Beckoning Lady - Albert Campion, Bk 15 Author:Margery Allingham Also published as The Beckoning Lady — IN THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS — RHODODENDRON means danger, beware... — CYPRESS stands for mourning... — MONKSHOOD warns "a deadly foe is here." — Campion had no trouble reading the message contained in the faded bouquet innocently present... more »ed by a child.
He was in mourning: a friend had died. A natural death, the doctor had said, though sudden.
But in the whole of that green and smiling countryside, there seems to be danger -- unless it came from the other body,m lying so quietly in a ditch. The body of a very dead man that nobody mourned, or even missed.
A small village in Suffolk, England, is the scene of two seemingly unrelated murders right before the town's grandest party of the decade. Detective Campion suspects that the murderer will be present at the bash, and his clever sleuthing provides mystery readers with the twists of plot and a surprise ending to baffle and delight!« less