num_pages: 312
description: The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But alas the princes gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queens monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet.With great haste Thomas Pitt brilliant mainstay of Special Services is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts cockney maid Gracie is also recruitedto pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests conversations scan their bedrooms and scrutinize their troubled faces for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have lead to murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young womanas seems increasingly likelyPitts career will be over and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
language: English
title: Buckingham Palace Gardens
publisher: Ballantine Books