Dandy Gilver and the proper treatment of bloodstains
By: Catriona McPherson
Series: Dandy Gilver -- 5
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bath, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781408486962; 9781408486955
Subjects: Dandy Gilver (Fictitious character); Fiction; Upper class; History
Description: "1st May 1926 - Dear Alec, Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can't believe it - I mean to say: riots, Alec - in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to its very first wheel? I am dressed in serge and sensible footwear, sleeping in an iron bed and dining off pickled tongue at six o'clock each day. I am, in short, that nice young Mrs Balfour's new maid. But don't worry, Alec dear: things haven't got as bad as all that. It's just that that nice young Mr Balfour is going to kill his wife. At least, she thinks so, and the more I hear about him from butler, cook and bootboy the more I'm inclined to agree. So I'm undercover, in disguise, bent upon foiling. And jolly hard work it is too - tomorrow is my half-day free if you'd care take me out for a restorative bun. (Every maid needs a beau to buy buns for her.) Yours, Dandy xx p.s. Ask for Miss Rossiter: below stairs I am she."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.