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Death in Fancy Dress (1933)

por Anthony Gilbert

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Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of mysteries.

At a soirée like this, anyone can be the life??or death??of the party

The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing.

In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bear.

This country house British mystery contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre over-hang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.

Includes an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the short stories 'Horseshoes for Luck' and 'The Cockroach and the Tortoise'… (más)

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The story begins with the revelation that a blackmail ring has been driving prominent persons to suicide and that a special agent from Scotland Yard is visiting a country house where his fiancé is staying to help ferret out the ringleader. Complications ensue when another young man, friend of the narrator, declares his intention of marrying the same young woman. When the narrator and his friend arrive they find the house in turmoil and the young woman missing. Yet a third man is pressuring her to marry him. During a fancy dress ball a body is found in a nearby pond and attention shifts to the murder. Indeed, the blackmail gang seems almost forgotten from the middle of the novel until the climax. The portrayal of tension in the household is well written but the plot is a little difficult to follow. Enjoyable as a sample of the era.
  ritaer | Mar 26, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
As the title might lead you to expect, this mystery is about a murder at a fancy-dress party. The murder takes over 100 pages to happen, which seems like rather a long time given that the word “Death” is right there in the title. And although I found this a light book, it did not strike me as terribly funny or clever. The narrator voices some shockingly sexist sentiments, and they are likely more shocking to me because the author was actually a woman writing under a male pseudonym. Was relieved that this was a borrow rather than a buy. ( )
  rabbitprincess | Jun 30, 2021 |
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You might say the affair began when Percy Feltham put a bullet through his head in 1917; or when Jeremy Freyne and I turned up on that foggy night at the Abbey to find half the household had turned out to the moors; or even to the scene of the second violent death on the premises a few days later.
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of mysteries.

At a soirée like this, anyone can be the life??or death??of the party

The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing.

In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bear.

This country house British mystery contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre over-hang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.

Includes an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the short stories 'Horseshoes for Luck' and 'The Cockroach and the Tortoise'

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