While visiting the Tabor family for a gala ball in 1901, the venerable Edwardian sleuthing duo of Auguste and Tatiana stumbles upon a corpse in Lady Pricilla Tabor's secluded smoking house and must find out who the victim is as well as the killer.
Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. Currently she is writing her contemporary crime series starring Jack Colby, car detective, and in between his adventures continuing her Marsh & Daughter series and her Victorian chimnney sweep Tom Wasp novels.