Midnight at the Savoy
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It’s midnight at the Savoy Hotel, and the doorman notices a Rolls-Royce parked in a spot where it shouldn’t be. In the back seat is a man who is, most regrettably, dead—clutching a love note addressed to a woman named… Priscilla. Could this be Miss Tempest, the feisty, trouble-prone Canadian who heads the Savoy’s press office?
Once again, Priscilla finds herself of great interest to the police. At the same time, she must juggle a cascade of crises. The infamously difficult Rex Harrison is living up to his reputation. Marlene Dietrich, the seductive Hollywood legend, is being—well—seductive, especially when Priscilla is around. To top it off, Priscilla’s hypochondriac younger sister, Phoebe, arrives unexpectedly from Toronto. Conservative Phoebe, the “good” Tempest sister, has come to bring Priscilla home. Good luck with that.
It’s a good thing Agatha Christie herself is hanging around—Priscilla is going to need the help of the world’s best-selling mystery writer to solve the murder and clear her name. That is, if she doesn’t end up dead or, worse, unemployed.
The fifth Priscilla Tempest mystery may just be her wildest, most unexpected, and most dangerous adventure yet!
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Praise for this book
For the few who don’t already know, Toronto journalist Ron Base has spent a lifetime immersed in popular culture. Music, movies, television, radio – Base has been part of them all and still has somehow managed to pen two dozen books, short stories and screenplays, and polish this terrific series featuring Priscilla Tempest.
This fifth outing finds Priscilla in London, in the Swinging Sixties, heading up the press office of the Savoy Hotel when a dead body turns up in a Rolls-Royce with a love note that may be to Priscilla. Cue the clues and the red herrings. Base knows how to build and pace a puzzle but he takes this one a long step further. No less a literary lion than Agatha Christie is at the hotel and she teams up with Priscilla to track down the killer. Along the way there are appearances by such luminaries as Rex Harrison and Marlene Dietrich. It’s all good fun and a great summer beach book.