Foul Play at Four

ISBN-13: 9780425251775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 326 str.

Ann Purser

Opis

She s worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up both messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But crime is a persistent stain, and Lois Meade is finding that sleuthing is rarely a spotless endeavor...
Magistrate Mrs. Tollervey-Jones represents the upper crust of the village, although nowadays she lives alone at the Farnden Hall estate without a staff to attend to her. Fortunately, Lois Meade s cleaning company visits twice a week.
But Lois s help is needed elsewhere as a series of robberies begins to plague Long Farnden. Lois s own daughter is shaken when a thief robs her grocery store till. Good thing Josie s got a policeman for a fiance he s on the culprit s trail soon afterward.
Before he can crack the case, though, someone cracks Lois s husband on the head when he stops in to check on Mrs. Tollervey-Jones and interrupts a burglary. Now Lois in collaboration once again with the besotted Inspector Cowgill must determine who cleaned out the magistrate s mansion, and clean up after an increasingly violent crime spree "