num_pages: 252
description: A room with a view to murder June 1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her familys hotel The Dolphin on the tranquil English coast. Shes expecting her days at the bustling resort to be filled with comfortable chatter with chambermaids as they polish the mahogany desks and glittering candelabras of the elegant foyer. Everything must be perfect for the arrival of a glamourous jazz singer from Chicago and a masked ball that will be the cultural highlight of the season. But when several rooms are broken into and searched including Kittys own she quickly realises that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon rumours are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kittys mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War. And when the break-ins are followed by a series of attacks and murders including of the towns former mayoress it seems the perpetrator will stop at nothing to find it. Aided by ex-army captain Matthew Bryant the Dolphins new security officer Kitty is determined to decipher this mystery and preserve not only the reputation of her hotel but also the lives of her guests. Is there a cold-blooded killer under her own roof? And what connects the missing jewel to the mystery from Kittys own past? A classic page-turning murder mystery! Fans of Agatha Christie Elizabeth Edmondson and T.E. Kinsey will love this unputdownable whodunnit. 
language: English
title: Murder at the Dolphin Hotel
publisher: Bookouture