On the day of the ‘Royal Wedding’ in July 1981 at a house party on the banks of the Thames, a little girl wanders off on her own. Her doll is found floating in the river, but of the girl herself there is no sign. Twenty years on and Antonia Darcy...
Seeking refuge at her godmother's country estate in the wake of a series of death threats, French diva Corinne finds her peace and quiet compromised by the machinations of unwelcome guests, including agent Maître Maginot, private detective Jonson, a...
Mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband, Major Hugh Payne, are persuaded to visit a fan's home. They become suspicious when the dying master of nearby Ospreys leaves his fortune to her....
It promised to be the perfect holiday every modern convenience, exotic terraced gardens complete with an 'English' folly, thirty-eight varieties of ice-cream, cocktails with names like 'Widow's Wink' and 'Mumbay Mule'. Antonia and Hugh Payne never se...
Did the young and beautiful Lady Tradescant try to poison her elderly husband? If not, who did? There is no shortage of suspects. His eccentric twin sister Bettina, his disgruntled son Nicholas, his scheming daughter Olivia . . . Antonia Darcy and Hu...
When a birthday party for one of their Hampstead neighbors turns deadly, Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne end up investigating the murder of one of Melisande Chevret's other guests. The aging actress becomes a natural suspect, as the victim was...
Lord Remnant's eccentric parties on his privately owned Caribbean island of Grenadin are the stuff of legends ... but then the 12th Earl suddenly dies in the course of an amateur production of The Murder of Gonzago, the play within a play in Hamlet. ...
Detective story writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Hugh Payne are asked to travel to Devon in order to prevent a murder on Sphinx Island, but they are far from enthusiastic as they suspect an elaborate joke. And when they hear that one of the house...
The ninth Antonia Darcy and Major Payne mystery novel -- a suspenseful whodunnit set in London
Do plots involving exchanged murders still work, and who exactly is the victim? Antonia Darcy never imagined that taking her young grandson to his fir...