The Pretty Pink Shroud

by E.X. Ferrars

The night after a fancy dress ball, Leila Guest, wife of the retired vice chancellor of the university, disappears, and the dress she had been wearing, now covered with blood-stains and bullet holes, is found among a bundle of clothes at a thrift clothing shop.

Genres: Mystery

186 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Aka Elizabeth Ferrars

Elizabeth Ferrars is a pseudonym of Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown. She was born in Rangoon, Burma.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Widowed Ruth has the flu, so she asks her daughter Ingrid to fill in for her at the charity shop. So Ingrid is on the spot when Lady Guest's latest donation arrives--including the beautiful ball gown that she had worn the night before, stained with blood. Ingrid's fiance is a local police detective, who looks into the problem of the dress, although no one has any suggestions as to how it got to the shop in that condition. Ruth is also concerned about the disappearance of her lodger, who is the ex-brother-in-law of Lord Guest.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little Gem. Would be a great script for a community stage company.

[Lila · Rating 3 out of 5]

A dress comes to a charity shop with a bullet hole and blood--but whose? is the mystery. The focus is on a woman's world of charity, gossip, and daughters. It seems to take half the book for the women to decide whether to call in the police, but a policeman is the fiancee of one of the daughters, so that's okay and he is gradually brought in. Other interesting dated items are blood can only be determined by type and the women have a horror of drinking alone. A quick read.

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fancy lady donates even more barely worn fancy clothes to charity. Somehow, the gown she wore with a night before makes it to the pile inside a locked car, newly adorned with what looks like a bullet hole and a lot of blood. Fancy lady is nowhere to be found. Some other guy went missing too.

A unique enough setup on this one, and the do-gooder couple is charming enough, if perhaps a little Leave It To Beaver-ish in their suburban aspirations.

[A]

It was ho hum.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and pleasant. A quick read.

[Catsalive · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

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