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  • Death at the Dance: An Addictive Historical Cozy Mystery

  • A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, Book 2
  • Written by: Verity Bright
  • Narrated by: Karen Cass
  • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)

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Death at the Dance: An Addictive Historical Cozy Mystery

Written by: Verity Bright
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Publisher's Summary

A masked ball, a dead body, a missing diamond necklace and a suspicious silver candlestick? Sounds like a case for Lady Eleanor Swift!

England, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, adventurer extraordinaire and reluctant amateur detective, is taking a break from sleuthing. She’s got much bigger problems: Eleanor has two left feet, nothing to wear and she’s expected at the masked ball at the local manor. Her new beau Lance Langham is the host, so she needs to dazzle.

Surrounded by partygoers with painted faces, pirates, priests and enough feathers to drown an ostrich, Eleanor searches for a familiar face. As she follows a familiar pair of long legs up a grand staircase, she’s sure she’s on Lance’s trail. But she opens the door on a dreadful scene: Lance standing over a dead Colonel Puddifoot, brandishing a silver candlestick, the family safe wide open and empty.

Moments later, the police burst in and arrest Lance for murder, diamond theft and a spate of similar burglaries. But Eleanor is convinced her love didn’t do it, and with him locked up in prison, she knows she needs to clear his name.

Something Lance lets slip about his pals convinces Eleanor the answer lies close to home. Accompanied by her faithful sidekick Gladstone the bulldog, she begins with Lance’s friends - a set of fast driving, even faster drinking, high-society types with a taste for mischief. But after they start getting picked off in circumstances that look a lot like murder, Eleanor is in a race against time to clear Lance’s name and avoid another brush with death....

Fans of Agatha Christie, T E Kinsey and Downton Abbey will adore this tremendously fun cozy whodunnit, full of mystery, murder and intrigue!

©2020 Verity Bright (P)2020 Bookouture
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Very entertaining

Incredible narration! How this reader does it is a mystery in itself; refreshing plot and appealing reader.

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Entertaining and light

Story is fine and performance is excellent. Hopefully the main character matures over the course of the books and replaces her somewhat petulant reactions with a slightly more thoughtful demeanor with those who dare disagree with her.

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On the Silly Side

Some notable inconsistencies in backstory and disappointing hints at an interesting past mystery but they go nowhere in this book and from descriptions of others not in those stories either. Most disappointing is that lead who has reportedly faced some incredible adventures and hardships, she is ready to give up all for someone named Lancelot? A vapid toy boy who uses all the annoying 'endearments' of old thing, old girl, sweet fruit etc... and is just too stupid for words?

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Horrible

Really? A chauvinist named Lancelot? Really? He’s horrible and this apparently independent woman sees him as charming? He’s an idiot. Gladstone has more personality. Don’t waste your time or money

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