Cotswold Mistress - Hardcover

Spicer, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312076835 ISBN 13: 9780312076832

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1992

Synopsis

A string of deaths of leading science figures--all of whom are involved in a project headed by American millionaire Marvin Lockhard--provide Jane Hildreth and her sidekick, Pat Huntington, with yet another mystery.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Rich, beautiful British secret agent Lady Jane Hildreth (Cotswold Murders, etc.) flips aimlessly through this new assignment. Her enigmatic Chief has asked her to investigate American Marvin Lockhart, a man so rich he builds warplanes for a hobby. He's now trying, at the end of the cold war, to sell one to the Royal Air Force. The plane has been blown up on the testing field, and the two engineers assigned to evaluate it have died. They'll undoubtedly be added to the supersecret Star War Deaths file--a copy of which is ardently desired by Defense Ministry biggie Sir Anthony Dean, who may or may not head a group of homosexually oriented spies. Then there's Lucille Fraser, Lockhart's mistress whose favors range wide--possibly as far as Libya. Lady Jane's affair with Simon Carey, who works in Hong Kong, is as unresolved as everything else in this jumble. A few story ideas (one or two of them unhackneyed) in search of an author who can provide tension, texture, and coherence. All they've found here is a glossy surface. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a third mystery featuring British secret agent Lady Jane Hildreth (after Cotswold Murders ), eccentric American aircraft designer Marvin Lockhart arouses the suspicion of MI5 when two scientists who had viewed his newest military jet on his rented Cotswold estate subsequently die by suicide and heart attack. Lady Jane follows orders to renew her passing acquaintance with Lockhart, but the mysterious millionaire vanishes after his prototypical jet explodes at a Royal Air Force base. The glamorous agent then flies off to Florida, ostensibly on a vacation with her lover but in reality to pursue the seductive Lucille Fraser, mistress to both Lockhart and defense ministry official Sir Anthony Dean, who had drawn Lady Jane's attention to the premature demise of 20 British scientists during the 1980s in a case known as "the Star Wars deaths." The heroine's doubts about her personal relationship intermingle with the mystery; both are resolved in an ambivalent, bittersweet denouement worthy of this above-average caper.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312076835
• ISBN 13: 9780312076832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159