Shoo-fly
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Elizabeth Blair and Max Shepard investigate the murder of spoiled rich kid, Julian Neville, who created havoc in a temporary job in the Ministry of Defense and who's battered body is discovered soon after.



Elizabeth Blair and Max Shepard investigate the murder of spoiled rich kid, Julian Neville, who created havoc in a temporary job in the Ministry of Defense and who's battered body is discovered soon after.
An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to entangle them in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust ...
Shortly before Christmas a baby is found abandoned in a vicarage porch. Hours later, intrepid explorer Con Bartram is fatally stabbed in the same Wiltshire village. Are the two events connected? Elizabeth Blair brings her enquiring mind and her American curiosity to bear on the case.