Why Did She Die?: A Lady Lupin Mystery - Softcover

Coggin, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1917543247 ISBN 13: 9781917543248

Publisher: Galileo Publishers, 2026

Synopsis

Lady Lupin, the ditzy but always kind young wife to the vicar of Glanville, Sussex, runs into what appears to be murder most foul while trying to help out a young married couple. Set just after World War II, this book was first published in England in 1947 and the third in the Lady Lupin series.

When Lady Lupin and her husband meet Penelope Stevenson and her brother and sister-in-law Dick and Betty, they feel they have lucked into a generous and virtuous friendship. But nothing is as it appears to be, and just as Lady Lupin and her husband begin to see the darker sides of the attachment, Penelope is shot in the garden.

With a pile of possible motives, multiple people confessing to the murder, and the prime suspect suspiciously absent, Lady Lupin must unravel the social Gordian knot of scandal and personality to uncover the killer. Told in Coggin’s signature light and humorous style, this is a mystery which will keep you guessing until the very end.


Lady Lupin Mysteries from Galileo Publishers:
Who Killed the Curate? (9781915530134)
The Mystery at Orchard House (9781915530929)
Why Did She Die? (9781917543248)
Dancing with Death (9781912916603)

About this title

About the Author

Who Killed the Curate? was first published in 1944 and was the first of four murder mysteries penned by Joan Coggin (1898-1980). Dancing with Death (1947) and Mystery at Orchard House were reissued most successfully by Galileo in 2022 and 2025. Her works have very strong plots and are written in a stylish and humorous manner which delighted critics at the time, and will surely equally delight the growing audience for Golden Age Detective fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Galileo Publishers
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1917543247
• ISBN 13: 9781917543248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228