Novels
The Steel Jubilee
Lights, Camera, Homicide
Costa Del Corpse
The Bonfire Night Massacre
The Book Of Death
The Stiletto
Hurrah For Hilary
A Poison Of Passengers
The Devils Brew
The Red Zeppelin
The Scandal At Bletchley
The Gunpowder Treason
The Pineapple Republic
Murder At Flaxton Isle
The Wilkerson Farm Murders
"I
don't know which bothered me more: the hand grenade
or the shotgun."
February 1936. Hilary Manningham-Butler is determined to escape another miserable British winter. Taking a short break from her secret service work, she heads to sunny Monte Carlo for a well deserved holiday. An incident at the casino brings her into the orbit of Laurence Knyvette, a well-known British playwright. Knyvette is holding a party at his luxury villa up on the mountainside and he invites Hilary along. All is not well in the household, however, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.