Havoc at Hanover Square: A 1920s Murder Mystery (Pippa Darling Mysteries)

It’s December 1926, and all of England is enthralled by the disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie. Miss Pippa Darling, her cousin and best friend Christopher Astley, and Christopher’s cousin Crispin, the newly-minted Duke of Sutherland, get in on the action as they speculate, surmise, and go off to the wilds of Surrey to look for clues. But while they’re preoccupied, trouble hits closer to home. Crispin’s nuptials to Lady Laetitia Marsden are scheduled for the third weekend in December, and when the bride-to-be is reported missing by her family, Detective-Sergeant Tom Gardiner gets involved. Things do not look good for the trio. Pippa and Christopher have been overheard discussing ways to stop the wedding—perhaps by getting rid of Laetitia, maybe even permanently. And everyone knows that Crispin isn’t in love with his fiancée, including Laetitia herself. Pippa wonders if the bride-to-be may have taken inspiration from the missing novelist and be in hiding.