Resultados para "The Piazza" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

Autunno 1984. È appena scesa la sera nella suite 224 del Grand Hotel Aziz di Palermo. Come ogni giorno, l'avvocato Prestia, che lì risiede da oltre vent'anni senza mai uscire, dopo la cena si è regalato la sua consueta partita a carte con Minico, il suo cameriere personale. Una bella partita, combattuta fino all'ultimo. Improvvisamente risuona uno sparo. Tutti accorrono nella camera d'albergo. Le carte sparpagliate ovunque, l'avvocato riverso sulla sua poltrona di velluto, morto. A ucciderlo è stato proprio Minico, che ancora stringe in mano la pistola.

Highly sought-after cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is fine with the family's eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs when her assistant is murdered. Afraid for her life, Kat turns to the mysterious Daniel McAdam for help. Daniel takes a position in the house as a footman and stand-in valet so that he can investigate covertly, but Kat cooks up a suspect list of her own.

In return for a random act of kindness, scholar Li Bai Chang presents young cook Kat Holloway with a rare and precious gift - a box of tea. Kat thinks no more of her unusual visitor until two days later when the kitchen erupts with the news that Lady Cynthia's next-door neighbor has been murdered.

When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiquities are disappearing not only from the extravagant households of connoisseurs and collectors but also from the illustrious British Museum. As the thefts increase in frequency, Kat calls upon her friend Daniel McAdam, who has already set himself up in a pawnshop on the Strand as a seedy receiver of stolen goods. When a man is murdered in the shop, Kat must use all of her wits to see that the thieves are caught and justice is done.

When cook Kat Holloway and the kitchen staff maintain the empty Mayfair house while the family resides in the country, Lord Clifford, Lady Cynthia’s confidence-trickster father arrives in London and asks Kat and Daniel McAdam for help. Lord Clifford might be accused of murder but won't go to the police because his involvement with the victim will implicate him in another crime.