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Nobody's sweetheart now a Lady Adelaide mystery

"Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in...

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Main Author: Robinson, Maggie
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Naperville, IL : Poisoned Pen Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Metropolitan Police Office > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > England > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary: "Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up! Not in the flesh, but in--actually, as a--spirit"--
Physical Description: 241 pages
ISBN: 9781464210723
1464210721
Author Notes: Maggie Robinson is a former teacher, library clerk and mother of four who woke up in the middle of the night absolutely compelled to create the perfect man and use as many adjectives and adverbs as possible doing so. A transplanted New Yorker, she lives with her not-quite-perfect husband in Maine, where the cold winters are ideal for staying indoors and writing.

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