Death and the Singing Birds

About the author

Amy Myers has written a wide range of novels, from crime to historical sagas to contemporary romance. She is also well known for her mystery short stories that have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and many anthologies.

Her traditional and cozy mystery series include the Jack Colby, car detective mysteries, co-written with her husband, American-born car buff James Myers; the Auguste Didier series; the Tom Wasp, Victorian chimney sweep novels; the Marsh and Daughter mysteries; and the Nell Drury mysteries.

Summary

1926, Kent. Chef Nell Drury is busy with preparations for Lady Ansley's luncheon to welcome Wychbourne Court's new neighbours, Sir Gilbert and Lady Saddler. Sir Gilbert is organizing a summer festival in Spitalfrith Manor and the whole village is buzzing with excitement. But at the festival itself, Nell witnesses some strange and disturbing events.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Myers, Myers Amy
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781780292007
• ISBN: 978-1-78029-200-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: A Nell Drury mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; Kent, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General