Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, are enjoying a holiday on a friend’s yacht, lazily sailing from one little English sea-town to the next.
It should all be delicious indolence… except that Henry can’t stop thinking about death.
Well, one death in particular. The death of a local sailor. And he really can’t stop thinking about it when it starts looking as though the drowned sailor is somehow connected to the robbery at a nearby manor house.
Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) was an acclaimed British mystery novelist, best known for her long running series featuring Inspector Henry Tibbett. The tenth book in the series, Who Saw Her Die?, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award, and Moyes was inducted into The Detection Club, presided over by Agatha Christie, in the same year. Her early career also included work as a radar operator in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; as a screenwriter – with credits including the Robert Hamer film School for Scoundrels and Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected –; as an assistant editor for Vogue magazine; and as a translator.
My thoughts: I’m beginning to think that the Tibbetts should just stay at home – their holidays always seem to end up getting someone murdered!
This time they’re enjoying the English coast, on a friend’s boat. But all is not well in the bucolic countryside and next thing you know they’re embroiled in jewel heists and murders. Henry gets stuck in to solve the case, and Emmy gets kidnapped.
Can Henry unravel the murderous mystery, save his wife and still enjoy a brief cruise on board their friends’ boat?
Another delightful classic crime resurrected from the archives, although I would also enjoy a biography of the author herself.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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