Lady Eleanor Swift has a special royal invitation. She's got just the right dress and the perfect plus one... But wait! Is that a body by the throne?
Lady Eleanor Swift
is at Buckingham Palace to see her new husband,
Detective Chief Inspector Seldon
, knighted. Brimming with pride, all she can hope is that Gladstone the bulldog behaves himself in front of the king.
But the happy day is overshadowed when
Dilly Dalrymple
, a royal guard from the Tower of London, tragically dies. The head of the royal police asks Eleanor and Hugh to investigate - unofficially. This is her first clue that there's more to the story...
Donning a disguise as a journalist for a well-to-do magazine, Eleanor, with butler Clifford posing as her photographer, is invited to stay in the Tower amongst the remaining guards and their families. She wasn't expecting gossiping wives, affairs aplenty and talk of long-lost treasure! Was Dilly killed to settle an old score or was he perhaps a little too close to someone else's wife?
But when another soldier is murdered at midnight, hours after the gates are locked, Eleanor knows she needs to keep her wits about her... And when everyone seems to have a reason to lie, can Eleanor dig up the truth before it's her head next?
A totally gripping royal whodunnit full of twists, set in 1920s London. Fans of T.E. Kinsey, Catherine Coles and Lee Strauss will be utterly obsessed!
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