Murder Take Three
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Publisher Description
1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set.
1956. Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham’s first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard, currently shooting a murder mystery film at Marling Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The film’s director – Suzie’s lover – has been receiving threats and Suzie is convinced his life is in danger.
On arriving at Marling Hall with his fiancée Maria, Langham finds the film set awash with clashing egos, petty jealousies, ill-advised love affairs and seething resentments. Matters come to a head when a body is discovered in the director’s trailer.
It would appear to be an open-and-shut case when someone confesses to the murder. Donald and Maria are not convinced – but why would someone confess to a crime they haven’t committed? If Langham is to uncover the truth, he must delve into the past and another murder that took place more than twenty years before…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1956, Brown's jaunty fourth series mystery (after 2016's Murder at the Loch) finds thriller writer and private detective Donald Langham in good spirits: spring has come to London, his new novel is about to be published, and he's looking forward to his upcoming wedding to literary agent Maria Dupr . Then Suzie Reynard, an American actress set to star in a murder-mystery film being shot at Marling Hall in Norfolk, drops into his office. She fears that "something screwy" is going on and that the life of director Douglas Dennison might be in danger. Langham and Dupr are soon ensconced at Marling Hall and doing a little incognito sleuthing. Brown depicts a world where the class system is still firmly in place; every country house has a full complement of (usually nameless) butlers, cooks, and ladies' maids; and gentlemen use words like chappie and jolly. Readers will enjoy spending time in the company of Brown's charming, well-mannered detectives as they try to solve a total of three murders.)
