![]() “You realize what this means? Stokes needs our help with a case, but I have to remain here, because with you in there I can barely waddle much less investigate. She squinted down at the mound distending her belly. “Damn!” With effort, she pushed herself up into a semi-sitting position and jammed a cushion behind her aching back. Only one sort of summons appeared at their door at such an unfashionably early hour. She hadn’t dozed off-it truly was barely nine o’clock. Penelope Adair, lady of the house, hugely pregnant and lying on the sofa in her garden parlor feeling like nothing so much as a beached whale, turned her head and peered through her spectacles at the clock on the mantelpiece. The chiming was immediately followed by a peremptory knock. The front doorbell of Number 24 Albemarle Street pealed. Working parallel to Barnaby and Stokes, can our would-be lovers find a path through the maze of contradictory facts to expose the murderer, disperse the pall of scandal, and claim the love and the shared life they now crave?Īn entry in The Casebook of Barnaby Adair series, the events in this short novel occur between the events described in the full-length novels, WHERE THE HEART LEADS and the upcoming THE MASTERFUL MR. Meanwhile, the threat of scandal grows ever more tangible for all those attending the house party – and the stakes are highest for Lord Finsbury’s daughter and the gentleman who has spent the last decade in darkest Africa striving to resurrect his family fortune so he can aspire to her hand. The conundrums compound as our intrepid investigators attempt to make sense of this most baffling case. Most peculiarly, why had the murderer left the necklace, worth a stupendous fortune, on the body? ![]() The murdered gentleman had been thrown out of the house party days before, so why was he returning? And how and why did he come to have the fabulous Finsbury diamond necklace in his pocket, much to Lord Finsbury’s consternation. When Barnaby is summoned to assist Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard in investigating the violent murder of a gentleman at a house party, Penelope, frustrated that she cannot participate, insists on a detailed report – and promptly arranges a private dinner party so that she and Griselda, Stokes’s wife, can be duly informed of their husbands’ discoveries.īut what Barnaby and Stokes uncover only leads to more questions. Penelope Adair, wife and partner of amateur sleuth Barnaby Adair, is so hugely pregnant she cannot even waddle. Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard calls in aristocratic sleuth Barnaby Adair to assist in a most puzzling case. ![]()
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