A Mysterious Affair of Style: A Sequel

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London 1946. A decade may have passed since she solved the ffolkes Manor murder case narrated in The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, but Evadne Mount, herself the irrepressible author of countless bestselling whodunits, has aged as little as most fictional sleuths tend to do. And here she is again, in A Mysterious Affair of Style, seconded as ever by her loyal, long-suffering partner-in-detection, Chief-Inspector Trubshawe, formerly of Scotland Yard, on the trail of an even more fiendishly ingenious killer. An actress is poisoned, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only five people had an opportunity to administer the poison - yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount discovers, however, when she applies her not-so-little grey cells to the crime, each of them is implicated in a web of deceit whose lethal ramifications extend far beyond the confines of the studio in which the murder was committed. For those readers who are already familiar with Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, this hugely entertaining new homage to the Golden Age of English murder mysteries and its most celebrated practitioner will, as they say, need no introduction. For those who are not, welcome to the world of Evadne Mount.

Gilbert Adair has published novels, essays, translations, children's books and poetry. His most recent novel is The Act of Roger Murgatroyd. He is the acclaimed author of The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice. He has also written screenplays, including The Dreamers - from his own novel - for Bernardo Bertolucci.