Murder Most Actual

Murder Most Actual (2021) Alexis Hall

Clue, but with a married lesbian couple.

(N)ext to the real log fire sat an equally real, although substantially less loggish, gentleman dressed in a manner that might have been called natty at around the time people used the word natty, but which now read more as hipsterish.

Mr Burgh didn’t look hugely confident. “And I have put the key in a new safe place I shall not reveal.”

“Is it around your neck?” Ruby’s eyes darted to a suspicious outline just visible through Mr Burgh’s shirt.

His hand went reflexively to his chest. “No.”

These are desperate times, Miss Blaine. And desperate times call for desperate measures.”

“Desperate measures that mostly cause problems for people who aren’t you?”

“People who aren’t me,” said the colonel, “aren’t really my concern at the moment.

Publisher: Kobo Originals

Rating: 8/10

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