num_pages: 227
description: The 1930s country house party packed with crooks, cops, and the usual suspects frame the perfect scene of the crime. This one assembles all the right ingredients - the theft of the fabled diamond necklace, the purloined antique pistols, the secret passage, the ravishing baroness with a past, the body in the lake.... What a pretty puzzle! "Don't expect me to solve anything," Inspector Wilkens announces. But of course, he does: theft, espionage, impersonations (triple, at the very least), blackmail, murder.The suspects include a noble host and hostess, a jewel thief and foreign agents in disguise, bright young things, mysterious mature men, a Texas millionaire, and, of course, the butler.Crime connoisseurs will recognize the ingredients for a zany pastiche, a delightful romp paying tribute to the past while titillating the present.And what does the blood-stained egg cosy have to do with anything?
language: English
title: The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy
titlecomplete: The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family Mysteries, #1)
characters: The Honourable Richard Saunders, Lady Burford, Mr. Felman, Stanislaus Batchev, The Wraith, George Saunders, Earl of Burford, Edward Thornton, Merryweather the butler, Baroness de la Roche, Detective Inspector Wilkins, Dr. Ingleby, Jane Clifton, John Evans, Algy Fotheringay, Jacob Zapoulous, Carrie Peabody, Martin Adler, Gerry Saunders, Giles Deveraux, Hiram S. Peabody, Detective Sergeant Jack Leather
genres: Fiction, Detective, Crime, Cozy Mystery, Humor, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Historical, Historical Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 2099
series: Burford Family
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press