Welcome back! Today, I’m part of the book tour for Murder In Manhattan by Verity Bright. Thanks to Sarah Hardy of Bookouture Books and NetGalley for the gifted ebook in exchange for my honest review.
Glitzy parties, sightseeing at the Statue of Liberty and strolls through Central Park with Gladstone the bulldog… Lady Eleanor Swift is loving her first trip to the city that never sleeps, until she witnesses a murder!
After crossing from England on the SS Celestiana, Lady Eleanor Swift sets up her home-away-from-home in a lavish apartment in New York City. She is soon the toast of the town, with no high-class soirée complete without her presence. Of course, she drags her butler Clifford and Gladstone the bulldog along to every party too.
But when she witnesses the charming doorman of her building, Marty, knocked down and killed in a hit-and-run, she finds fashionable society suddenly closes rank. The only local detective interested in helping her find the culprit is street-smart beat cop, Officer Balowski.
Resolved to get justice for Marty and his family, Eleanor searches Marty’s tiny apartment and is shocked to find five rolls of banknotes tucked under the floorboards. Money talks, but Marty was struggling to make ends meet, so where did the cash come from?
The next day, wealthy entrepreneur and flashy philanderer Ogden P. Dellaney – a man Marty used to work for – is found dead downtown, miles away from his swanky Upper East Side mansion. Eleanor and Balowski are sure the deaths are connected, but not even Dellaney’s wife is willing to answer their questions.
Then Eleanor is served with an eviction notice and Balowski is fired from the NYPD. It becomes clear that something is rotten in the Big Apple and Eleanor is determined to get to the core of the mystery before the murderer strikes again…
Murder in Manhattan is a fun, fast-paced and twisty Golden Age cozy mystery set in New York. Fans of Agatha Christie, T.E. Kinsey and Lee Strauss will be glued to the pages.
The fourteenth book in the Lady Eleanor Mystery series! I will confess now that this is my first time reading anything written by Verity Bright. Luckily, this book was easily read on its own, but, I must say, it’s given me a small taste of Lady Eleanor, and I’m so ready for more. So, I’m pretty glad there are plenty of books to work my way through!
A cosy mystery with Lady Eleanor at the very centre of it all. She arrived in Manhattan after crossing from England on the SS Celestiana. She sets about living her high society life by being at any soirée she can. She even takes her butler, Clifford and French Bulldog, Gladstone, too! New York life takes a different turn when she witnesses Marty, the doorman of her apartment gets knocked down and killed. As things go from bad to worse for her and the policeman who decided to help her, can Lady Eleanor get to the crux of the matter before someone else is murdered?
1920’s Manhattan, a mystery to solve and quite a few delightful characters. I do not know why I am only just reading this series. The cover of this book drew me to check out the blurb, and after reading that, I wanted to know everything!
Even though this was my first introduction to Lady Eleanor and Co., I was soon at home with everyone. I loved the mystery, tension, and the humour, that ran through this story. The conclusion left me with a fuzzy feeling as well. Gripping and such a fun read! I enjoyed it so much.
Buy Link
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Author Bio
Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humour, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.
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