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Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull perhaps, a bit fussily fastidious. But in the right position, even dullness can be a virtue. And as Her Majesty's "Head of Chancery" in India, Frencham was the ideal man to make up the numbers at a diplomatic dinner party, keep the junior officers in line, and represent solid British values. Indeed, Frencham's life was such a model of propriety that its two areas of untidiness stood out in startling relief. One, certainly, was his death: Diplomats do not tend to be found in bloody heaps, furiously stabbed with antique ritual daggers. Nor do they tend to amass priceless collections of Tibetan artifacts or bulging bank accounts. Had Frencham been smuggling? Spying? Clearly he had been up to something untoward, and George Sinclair is sent off to Delhi to find out what it was and -- ideally -- sweep it all under an ornate Indian rug. Back in London, this seemed like a relatively straightforward task. But once in India, Sinclair soon realizes that nothing about the dull, eternally correct Hugo Frencham was straightforward. And he realizes as well that he's going to need a very big rug.

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"Elizabeth Ironside" is the pseudonym for Lady Catherine Manning, the current British Ambassador to the United States. As "Elizabeth Ironside" she has written five stand-alone mystery novels, of which two (Death in the Garden and The Accomplice) have been published in the U.S. by Felony & Mayhem; National Public Radio named Death in the Garden one of the 12 Best Books of 2005. Upon initial publication in the UK, A Very Private Enterprise won Britain's CWA Creasey award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year, and Death in the Garden was shortlisted for the CWA Golden Dagger award, for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Lady Manning and her husband, Sir David Manning, live in Washington, DC.
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"A really excellent first novel, with original and interesting characters, great atmosphere, good action, and a genuine surprise in the tail" --Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"This intriguing first novel is imbued with an atmosphere of reality -- partly through its sheer intelligence -- that makes it outweigh the work of many more practiced writers" --The Telegraph (UK)

"Excellent local colour and culture, grand adventure, and an admirable denoument" --Times of London

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  • PublisherFelony & Mayhem Press
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1933397942
  • ISBN 13 9781933397948
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages323
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