The Affair of the Mutilated Mink — James Anderson

MISTAKEN IDENTITY, A MUTILATED MINK COAT, AND MURDER.

Outside Alderly, the Earl of Burford's 17th century estate, the weather is decidedly parky, inside the atmosphere is definitely nervous-making. The loopy lord has thrown an impromptu house party for his favorite film star and a Hollywood producer who wants the family manse for the set of his next movie. Lady Geraldine ,the Earl's daughter, has brought home two suitors of questionable pedigree, and the Countess Lavina, the Earl's wife, is looking aghast at a growing list of guests that includes a long-lost cousin, a hot-tempered femme fatale, a bespectacled librarian, and an eccentric screenwriter. Put this zany cast of characters into the milieu of 1930s upper-class England, add a secret passage, a famous gun collection, and a butler named Merryweather and you have the stuff mysteries are made of... a particularly pleasing puzzler sure to baffle and delight whodunit fans.