num_pages: 352
description: "A dazzing first novel." - STEPHEN FRY An actress dies with shocking suddenness while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Bitchy and manipulative, Flora Messel had enemies...Widow Elizabeth Blair runs a patchwork quilt shop, but has a second job as a partner in the detective agency run by her lively young colleague, Max Shepard. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to get them entangled in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties with undercurrents of malice and distrust...
language: English
title: Cat's Cradle
titlecomplete: Cat's Cradle
ratings_count: 13
series: Elizabeth Blair Mystery 
publisher: Ulverscroft