The villa of death
Subtitle: a Daphne du Maurier mystery
By: Joanna Challis
Edition: 1
Series: No. 3 of 3
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780312367176
Subjects: Murder; Aristocracy (Social class); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical; Weddings; Fiction; Investigation; English Women authors; Manors
Description: "Young Daphne du Maurier must defend of a friend who has been accused of murder in this next installment in the beguiling mystery series that readers of Rebecca will love.  t's the summer of 1927, and young Daphne du Maurier has traveled to Thornleigh Manor to attend the wedding of her good friend, Ellen, who is set to marry her beau, Teddy. Having met in the midst of the chaos and calamity of wartime, the lovers were brutally separated years before by family objections, but have since reunited. But when Teddy is found murdered just after the wedding, and Ellen is accused of the crime, Daphne and the dashing Major Browning must uncover the truth before all is lost. "--