I saw the description for this on a sale for Audible and was able to get it for free through Kindle Unlimited. It is set in 1920 so I guess that is the Downton Abbey part of the description and it is a mystery so that crosses off the Agatha Christie. I'm not sure where the Wodehouse comes in except maybe it's a
first person narrator who seems sort of feckless.
Major Heathcliff Lennox is back from the Great War and is trying to figure out how to keep up with the expenses of a big house. Luckily, he has Christmas with his uncle, Charles, and cousin, Edgar, to look forward to. And some other more distant cousins will be there as well.
Too bad that, shortly before he is set to leave, a fat man turns up dead on his doorstep. In the man's pocket is the name that Lennox knows, that of a Russian countess. It seems like the man died of a heart attack so Lennox keeps heading to Melrose Court. He is very much startled to find that very countess in residence with her niece. And the countess is now engaged to marry his uncle. but she doesn't seem exactly savory nor very discreet as she decides to wear a necklace that once belonged to Lennox. And then she ends up dead with Lennox being discovered over the body holding the gun.
This is not the last murder to occur in this book and becomes a close thing for Lennox as it becomes clear someone would like him to take the fall.
This was a nice start to a series with some good world and character building. I wish we had learned more about Lennox as there was more time spent on secondary characters.
Three stars
This book came out December 3, 2018
Followed by The Black Cat Murders
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own
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