The Earl’s Mummified Murder and Other After Dinner Amusements

A Cozy Regency Mystery of Love and Murder

De: Marisa Paxon

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

I am the narrator of this book, which means I have already hauled an entire Egyptian gallery, one stubborn earl, several crates of “private arrangements,” and a corpse dressed for the wrong millennium into coherent order, and now they have decided I must also persuade you to join in. Apparently my reward for keeping everyone from fainting into the evidence is commerce.

Lord Caddington hosts an after dinner unwrapping in his London townhouse, candles lit, scholars twitching, society ladies sharpening their smiles, and one coffin waiting under glass like a promise. Miss Isabel Fairleigh, an impoverished knight’s daughter employed to catalogue his collection (and, as it turns out, everyone’s nonsense), expects dust, linen, and the usual arguments about hieroglyphics. What she gets is a freshly dead man wrapped like an ancient mummy, complete with a bruised throat and the very recognisable face of Edgar Latham, who was meant to be arriving to applaud himself, not to be discovered as an exhibit.

Now Bow Street is on the doorstep, the guests are trapped behind shut doors, and someone has used Caddington’s prized coffin to frame him for murder with all the subtlety of a dropped sarcophagus. Isabel is instructed to do what she does best: notice everything, mislabel nothing, and keep an infuriatingly honourable man from being politely ruined, or quite literally hanged, while a rival collector, a scholar with shaking hands, and a financial adviser with very correct gloves and an even more incorrect conscience circle like vultures around a ledger full of secrets. Also, inconveniently, there is flirtation, because of course there is, and it insists on turning up in libraries with brandy and rolled up sleeves at the worst possible moments.

Perfect for readers who enjoy Regency cozy murders in high society rooms, clever clue chasing with crates, keys, and ledgers, sharp banter, and a vexingly attractive hero who keeps his word even when it is inconvenient.

Expect a clue rich, fair play mystery with a satisfying logical reveal, a closed door slow burn romance with an HEA, and no graphic gore, only the usual amount of social horror. It is a complete, stand alone case in the Regency: Corpses & Courtship Club world, so you may begin right here and blame no one but yourself. Now, click Look Inside, and let us see whether you are the sort of person who can resist a mummified murder, or whether you will sensibly surrender at once.