num_pages: 268
description: A body clearly shaken but not stirringSummer 1929. Murder isnt on the menu when Chicago tycoon Ransom Warne hosts a dinner party at his country estate. But someones a victimand everyones a suspectwhen drinks and desires lead to disaster. Hollywood starlet Lottie Landry has returned home to celebrate her engagement. Shes famous for her on- and off-screen romance with co-star Noble but privately shes having second thoughts. As her former guardian Ransom doesnt approve of the match. Yet his own affections raise questions when his wife Edith suspects him of having an affairjust as Noble suspects Lottie. Stirred into the mix are Lotties friends Helen and Rex a young journalist and football hero who can feel tension building in the Warne mansion like a shaken champagne bottle. And once the cork pops a body drops. Coattails and Cocktails is where Agatha Christie meets The Great Gatsby a whodunit spiked with new love and old baggage public faces and private vices. Filled to the brim with romance and mystery its sure to intoxicate.
language: English
title: Coattails and Cocktails
publisher: Fallen Monkey Press