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When ambitious hotelier Eric Schuhmacher announces he is to turn Springwood Hall, near the market town of Bamford, into a smart Cotswold country house hotel, the news is greeted by a chorus of local disapproval. The Society for the Preservation of Historic Bamford, led by the redoubtable Hope Mapple, objects to the alterations being carried out on the building; the Equine Rest Home fears that its aged animals will be evicted from the field lent to them by the Hall estate; and the spurning of the expert gastronomic services of Chief Inspector Markby's brother-in-law Paul Danby in favour of those of a London food pundit provokes outrage in the Danby household.
So the gala opening, to which all the disaffected parties have been invited, promises to be quite an event - not least because the amply upholstered Hope Mapple is unilaterally planning a disruptive streak protest.
But Hope's lightning dash is unexpectedly upstaged by a far more shocking event: the discovery of a recently murdered body on the premises. The victim is a local woman, and for Chief Inspector Markby and his guest Meredith Mitchell what had promised to be a diverting summer treat suddenly turns into a horribly serious affair . . .
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| ISBN 13: | 9780747240433 |
| ISBN 10: | 0747240434 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 344 |
| Dimensions: | 173 x 108 mm |
| Released: | 01/08/1993 |
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