Dead Man at High Tea,
By Mystery Writer, Liz LaMac
****Hi, this is Liz LaMac, I am writing to tell you about my new
book. The title is Dead Man at High
Tea. It is a mystery involving the finding of a dead body in the
stately Victorian mansion and home of Lucy Conley on the morning of one of her
fancy, high society gatherings which she calls "High Tea". The body
comes up missing several times, and Lucy, along with some of her other friends,
battle against time to solve the case before one of them is arrested for the
crime.
You can order Dead Man at High Tea from my Ebay store and see all the other books by Liz and more:
http://stores.ebay.com/Lady-Lizs-Victorian-boutique
A little bit more about the new book: Lucy Conley, who is a columnist for a women’s magazine, High Tea and Garden Parties is giving a high tea for 75 prominent women, in Virginia, including the Governor’s wife. It is just minutes before time for the guest to arrive when Lucy discovers a dead man in the music room. There isn’t time for her to involve the sheriff, so to save the tea and not disappoint the women; Lucy tries to hide the dead man in the armoire. But she can’t get one of his legs to go in. The door bell is ringing. She locks the music room doors and tries to keep calm as she goes on, as planned, with the High Tea. But during the tea, Leroy the butler finds the body and not wanting to spoil Lucy’s special day; he drags the dead man into the hall closet. However when the handsome High Sheriff arrives the body is gone. This mystery has some very serious moments alongside the humor that is always there, when Liz writes.
Lucy’s two best friends, Mary Lou and Inez arrive to help Lucy with the High Tea and soon become aware that something is wrong. Lucy is nervous and shaky. Lucy doesn’t tell them about the dead man until after the tea is over and the quests are all gone. They call Sheriff McKown and when he arrives he becomes very upset when he doesn’t find a dead man in the armoire or a body in the hall closet.
****Hi, this is Liz LaMac, I am writing to tell you about my new
book. The title is Dead Man at High
Tea. It is a mystery involving the finding of a dead body in the
stately Victorian mansion and home of Lucy Conley on the morning of one of her
fancy, high society gatherings which she calls "High Tea". The body
comes up missing several times, and Lucy, along with some of her other friends,
battle against time to solve the case before one of them is arrested for the
crime.You can order Dead Man at High Tea from my Ebay store and see all the other books by Liz and more:
http://stores.ebay.com/Lady-Lizs-Victorian-boutique
A little bit more about the new book: Lucy Conley, who is a columnist for a women’s magazine, High Tea and Garden Parties is giving a high tea for 75 prominent women, in Virginia, including the Governor’s wife. It is just minutes before time for the guest to arrive when Lucy discovers a dead man in the music room. There isn’t time for her to involve the sheriff, so to save the tea and not disappoint the women; Lucy tries to hide the dead man in the armoire. But she can’t get one of his legs to go in. The door bell is ringing. She locks the music room doors and tries to keep calm as she goes on, as planned, with the High Tea. But during the tea, Leroy the butler finds the body and not wanting to spoil Lucy’s special day; he drags the dead man into the hall closet. However when the handsome High Sheriff arrives the body is gone. This mystery has some very serious moments alongside the humor that is always there, when Liz writes.
Lucy’s two best friends, Mary Lou and Inez arrive to help Lucy with the High Tea and soon become aware that something is wrong. Lucy is nervous and shaky. Lucy doesn’t tell them about the dead man until after the tea is over and the quests are all gone. They call Sheriff McKown and when he arrives he becomes very upset when he doesn’t find a dead man in the armoire or a body in the hall closet.
He said it was
hard to make a murder case without a body. But it soon becomes apparent to the
Sheriff, that there actually had been a dead man in the armoire and in the hall
closet. And three different people confess to killing the man. There was still
no body. And the three ladies seem to be targets when they try to help find the
killer.
Mary Lou and
Inez stay at Lucy’s house to help protect her; after a note leads the Sheriff
to believe the dead man knew Lucy many years ago and was holding a grudge
against her and was in her house to kill her. Afraid she was still in danger the
Sheriff assigned a deputy to stay with them. Nellie, the cook became a prime
suspect when she disappeared. However, her secret life was discovered and she was
forced to relive some of her heart-breaking tragedies that took place during
the Korean War.
Then the story
takes a bizarre twist when a body is found in a freezer in a nearby town, then
disappears again before it can be identified. Lorie, a little whisky guzzling
white headed lady gets into the picture and then funny things begin to happen.
The sheriff doesn’t know quite when to believe her. But, when the tables turn and
darling Lucy becomes the prime suspect, the sheriff is saddened. Somewhere
during his investigation he became aware of the fact that he was paying more
attention to Lucy, than he was to solving the crime. Some things he doesn’t
know; does Lucy feel the same about him? And did Lucy kill the dead man? Or did
little giggly Mary Lou kill him.
As Nellie cooks
and watches every move the rest of them make; she is convinced the killer is a visitor
and not one of the people that actually live at the Conley House. However,
every suspect has a different theory. And the list of suspects includes the 75
prominent lades that came to High Tea. Leroy leans toward the baker who did confess.
But until they have a body and the autopsy comes back no one will even know
what killed the dead man; let alone know who killed him. At the finale of Dead Man at High Tea, the reality of who
actually killed the dead man is unbelievable.
