Murder at the White Palace

✍ Scribed by Allison Montclair

• Book ID: 115261259
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 624 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250854223

✦ Synopsis

**In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder.
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In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous--and never discussed--past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a genteel war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family. Looking to throw a New Year's Eve soiree for their clients, Sparks and Bainbridge scout an empty building--only to find a body contained in the walls. What they initially assume is a victim of the recent Blitz is uncovered instead to be a murder victim--stabbed several times.
To make matters worse, the owner of the building is Sparks' beau, Archie Spelling, who has ties to a variety of enterprises on the right and wrong sides of the law, and...