Childs, Laura — LAVENDER BLUE MURDER
Berkley New York First Paperback Edition; , Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear, creases in spine; Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes) , gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued but worried, Theodosia wanders into the neighbor's lavender field where she discovers their host, Reginald Doyle, bleeding to death. ; A Tea Shop Mystery; Vol. 21; 306 pages
