具体描述
A country-house mystery. The phrase evokes an image of 1930s fops in dinner jackets, starched family retain�ers, pale fingers dripping strychnine in the gin. It does not evoke an image of the belching Andy Dalziel, and yet there he is, on an enforced holiday, fetched up at a crumbling country manor, and sticking his bulbous nose into circumstances surrounding the late owner's unusual demise. As this is 1972, rather than 1932, the fops are sporting t-shirts and excessive facial hair, and the family retainer is knocking ash in the micro�waved stew. But there is a femme, and while she may or may not be fatale, she's fabulous enough to waken even Dalziel's long dormant romantic dreams. Peter Pascoe could apply the brakes, but he's on his honeymoon, establishing his own romantic dreams with Ellie. For good or ill, love is in the air.
