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Spotlights focused on the Abbey buildings. The air held a piece of silver moon. An oboe blew a soft pure note. Clear young voices broke into a madrigal... ...listening, in mellow mood, Max Maunciple drank just one gin too many. And died. An egotist, a blackmailer, no-one mourned for Maunciple. But one person did not believe that alcohol was the only poison that poisonous man had imbibed. And when Penny Wanawake seeks the Truth, the Truth, however elusive, gets dragged kick- ing and screaming into the open. Penny Dreadful is the second in the series of Penny Wanawake Mysteries

Distinctly impure amusement... relax and enjoy it. Daily TelegraphLower Ingleford seems a typical rural hamlet in the sunlit uplands of northern England, complete with Village Institute, village green, and lord of the manor. But something is seriously amiss: milking equipment explodes; brakes are tampered with; bullets fly - someone is trying to kill the squire. Or so it seems. And the motives are tangled in a morass of shady property deals, art forgeries, and various dubious business practices.When Kendal Santain, local landowner and apparent target, calls on Penny Wanawake for help, he gets it. And rather more than he d bargained for. Six feet, 126 lbs, Bovril-black, rich, beautiful and totally uninhibited - when Penny seeks a Solution, there is nowhere for a Solution, however timid and retiring, to hide.PENNY POSTThird in the notable series starring the inimitable Penny WanawakeDon t missPENNY BLACK Debuts do not come more exotic and exuberant The Times

The news hit the papers... Dr Bruno Ferlinghetti, esteemed Italian archaeologist and director of Rome s Institute Ferlinghetti, had disappeared from his home near Naples. A pair of priceless statuettes had also vanished. You didn t have to be Perry Mason to realise that the doctor and the statuettes were thought to be travelling together. Dear forgetful Bruno - disorganised, thoughtless, but never, Penny knew, never dishonest. Bruno was incorruptible; he didn t mess with drink or drugs or boys, and if he developed a vice he had the Ferlinghetti fortune to indulge it. The exquisitely tuned reasoning of Penny Wanawake sensed it had to be kidnapping or worse. Six feet of slender, sophisticated, immoral, uninhibited sleuth took the first flight to Rome... PENNY ROYAL Fourth in the remarkable series starring the devastating Penny Wanawake Also from Futura PENNY POST A rattling good read, refreshingly different London Standard PENNY DREADFUL The successful second book in a notable series Financial Times PENNY BLACK Debuts do not come more exotic and exuberant The Times

Written by the same author as "Penny Black", "Penny Post" and "Penny Dreadful" this crime story traces the investigations of private eye Penny Wanawake which take her from the Aegean to the Cotswolds in search of hidden secrets.

Susan Moody has written five other novels based on her female detective: "Penny Black", "Penny Post", "Penny Dreadful", "Penny Royal" and " Penny Wise". Susan Moody's detective heroine returns in this tale of intrigue to the Californian wine country.