Angels Dining at the Ritz

Suzie Mountford #3

by John Gardner

August 17th 1942 and the war is the backdrop to DS Suzie Mountford's investigation into the death of an eminent barrister and his family in London. But within hours the investigation leads the team to Norfolk and the American Air Force personnel stationed nearby.

9 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960s, John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all, Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker.

Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

August 1942 Long Taddmarten, East Anglia. Someone has brutally killed barrister Max Ascoli, his wife and son. Ascoli is the barrister who previously saved Golly Goldfinch from the gallows. As that case involved DCS Tommy Livermore and his team, they are assigned to the case.
An entertaining historical mystery