EAN: 9780241766170

MONTGOMERY ROSS THE MURDER AT WORLDS END

Downton Abbey meets Knives Out in the gripping new crime series from the bestselling author
where an unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogerian - hunt a killer
in a manor sealed against the end of the world.   'A tantalising whodunnit with some of the
funniest dialogue I've read in a while' JENNIE GODFREY  'Ingeniously plotted and highly
addictive. Fans of P G Wodehouse will enjoy this!' ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG   'A joy from start to
finish. This is crime writing at its best' JANICE HALLETT    Cornwall  1910. On a remote tidal
island  the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that
he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be sealed from top to
bottom - every window  chimney and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous
dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within... By morning
he will be dead in his sealed study  murdered by his own ancestral crossbow.  All eyes turn to
Stephen Pike  Tithe Hall's newest under-butler. Fresh out of Borstal for a crime he didn't
commit  he is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. His unlikely ally? Miss
Decima Stockingham  the foul-mouthed  sharp as a tack  80-year-old family matriarch. Fearless
and unconventional  she relishes chaos and puzzles alike  and a murder is just the thrill she's
been waiting for.  Together  this mismatched duo must navigate secret passages  buried grudges
and rising terror to unmask the killer before it's too late...

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