Stephen Munro has recently come down in the world. After the war, he came back to a small inheritance from his uncle. While it was enough for him to be a gentleman of leisure for some time, it has now run out. He has only enough money to pay off his manservant and get himself to a new position as a footman to Lady Susan Carey. She hasn't had one lately but would thinks that she would like to have one for her upcoming weekend party. It's just hard luck that Stephen is recognized by not one but two of Lady Susan's guests. Even harder luck that one, Pauline, of them is the fiancee of a prominent business man when earlier she was a particular friend of Stephens.
There are many other people who are joining Lady Susan for the weekend and the sheer number of characters was more than a little confusing but one one disappears after a seance and another is killed, it does get a little easier to follow.
I would call this a typical mystery of the time with a solution that was a little convoluted. A nice read on an autumnal afternoon.
Three and a half stars
This book came out 1921 (as Lady Cicely Disappears)
Borrowed as ebook from Libby
Opinions are my own
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