num_pages: 316
description: September 1909 and Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpes country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanationCloser investigation reveals that the drivers car was sabotagedand the driver murdered. The local constabulary are quick to dismiss the case but Flo and Lady Hardcastle are determined to find out just who has committed this dastardly act and why.As the pair begin to make enquiries of Lord Riddlethorpes servants and guests it seems that below stairs and above there is more to this case than meets the eye. And even in the quiet of the countryside death is always just around the bend.
language: English
title: Death Around the Bend
publisher: Thomas & Mercer