Jill Staynes píše pod svým jménem i pod pseudonymy Elizabeth Eyre a Susannah Stacey. Spolu s Margaret Storey vytvořila uznávanou sérii detektivních románů z italské renesance a také moderní detektivní romány s komisařem Bonem. Staynes a Storey se poznaly ve škole, kde si vymýšlely bizarní postavy a psaly o nich seriálové příběhy. Jejich první společná kniha, napsaná v patnácti letech, se jmenovala 'Bungho, aneb proč jsme jeli do Aleppa', ale nebyla nabídnuta k publikaci.
Investigating a series of serial killings that has taken place in the reputedly haunted village of Biddinghurst, Kent, Superintendent Robert Bone uncovers an unlikely but disturbingly plausible scenario for the crimes. Original.
SOME GUESTS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE... The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling, well pleased... until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else. She was dead—shot twice, with two different guns, in a room Cryer had specifically locked against intruders. For Superintendent Robert Bone, these were only the first complications in a case that would include champagne corks that masked the sound of gunfire, a missing, suspect, a stolen religious artifact, an orphaned cat, and the unexpected assistance of one very pretty biology teacher. But it would take a second body to lead Bone, at last, to the unrepentant murderer...
When Superintendent Robert Bone attends an amateur opera performance at Haddon House, his daughter Charlotte’s school, he imagines he’s finished with work for the day. But when at the end of the evening the pretty and ambitious English teacher, Claire ‘Sugar Plum’ Fairlie, is found in the Domestic Science room, where a knife has been firmly and terminally buried in her back, Bone finds himself launching a murder inquiry.The prime suspect has to be Mr Sharpe, who was found with the body; he has made no secret of his infatuation with Claire and admits she had lately rejected him. But Bone is convinced that Sharpe is innocent and, as one suspect after another starts to emerge, he begins to wonder just how many enemies the popular Miss Fairlie actually had. Yet only when another teacher, the charming Grizel Shaw, draws Bone’s attention to some inexplicable behaviour does the light begin to dawn...
Superintendent Bone und seine frisch angetraute Frau Grizel rechnen mit ein paar ruhigen Ferientagen, als sie sich auf ihre Rundreise zu einigen alten englischen Herrensitzen begeben. Doch spätestens auf Roke Castle nimmt ihr Urlaub eine unerwartete Wendung: ein Mitglied der Reisegesellschaft und der exzentrische Lord Roke kommen auf bizarre Art ums Leben. Bone merkt schnell, daß die Kollegen von der örtlichen Polizei überfordert sind, und nimmt die Sache selbst in die Hand. Keine Minute zu früh!
A sharp-witted new sleuth unravels the deadly riddles of Renaissance Italy. With his bald head and black cape, Sigismondo is an imposing figure. A marriage is arranged to end a feud between two houses, but Sigismondo must investigate when the bride disappears and her handmaid is murdered. Previous publisher: St. Martin's.
Roman, übersetzt von Caroline Einhäupl und Barbara Schmitz-Burckhardt, umfasst 217 Seiten.
