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    Uninvited Countess

    By Michael Kilian

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    Bedford Green finds that Newport's rich and powerful work hard, play hard, and die easy.

    Gossip columnist, gallery owner, amateur sleuth – Bedford Green has been a lot of things, but he's never been respectable. So on a blistering hot afternoon in 1925, the impeccably dressed man-about-town is shocked to receive an invitation from the Vanderbilts requesting he spend a few days in their cottage at Newport. By 'cottage', of course, the Vanderbilts mean the Breakers – a 70-room mansion lavish enough to make King Midas blush. Desperate to escape the rising mercury level, Green accepts, and brings along his invaluable assistant, Sloane. But out at the Breakers, he'll find there are more dangerous things than a heat wave.   The Vanderbilts have hired Green to investigate the mysterious Countess Zala, an interloper whose arrival has been the talk of the season. But when Green lands at Newport, the Countess is found murdered on the beach – and the party is just getting started.  The Uninvited Countess is the 2nd book in the Bedford Green Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2016
    ISBN9781784979065
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    Michael Kilian

    Michael Kilian (1939-2005) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and Westchester, New York. He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Tribune in Washington, DC, and also wrote the Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteries. In 1993, with the help of illustrator Dick Locher, Kilian began writing the comic strip Dick Tracy. Kilian is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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      Bedford Green receives an invitation for a weekend visit to the Vanderbilt estate in Newport. It is through his gallery assistant, Sloan. Bedford is suspicious there is a reason more than just being social. Turns out he is right.The inviting Vanderbilt is interested in getting the gossip on Countess Zala, a supposed Hungarian noble. When Bedford and Sloan arrive at the right Vanderbilt house (seems there is more than one) the interest in getting the gossip on the Countess has disappeared. In fact any interest has completely dried up, even when a dead body is found by Bedford during a late night skinny dipping episode. This is very interesting and unusual, as the dead body strongly resembles the Countess.Bedford and Sloan find that the rich prefer to ignore or silence any and all publicity that could be negative. For the rich, life is too good to be soiled by murder.In trying to solve this case, Bedford and Sloan find themselves involved with rum runners, Hungarian revolutionaries, murderous family members from high society to middle class. It is quite the cast of characters. And of course it is the Roaring Twenties!I’m looking forward to finding more books in this series. This is number two!