num_pages: 255
description: Kitty Underhay is dancing with death.Winter 1934. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a night off from wedding planning as she attends a charity ball at the home of Lady Eliza Foxley. Shes excited to see her father roguish Edgar Underhay who is also a guest in the house. But the evening of cocktails and waltzing turns into a dance macabre when Edgar finds their lively fun-loving hostess dead strangled by her own silk stocking.Who has made this uncharitable donation to the evenings entertainments? When suspicion falls on Edgar and he is arrested for murder Kitty has to act fast if she doesnt want her father walking her down the aisle in shackles. Together with her fianc Matthew they vow to clear Edgars name and discover who used hosiery to commit homicide.Lady Elizas widowed sister is the main beneficiary of her will but before Kitty and Matt can question her she is struck down by a severe case of poisoning. Time is running out for Kitty to solve this case and make it to the church on time. But with a devious killer on the loose will she end up leaving as a newlywed or newly dead?
language: English
title: Murder at the Charity Ball
publisher: Bookouture