A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (A Dizzy Heights Mystery Book 2) (edition 2021)

by T E Kinsey (Author)

Series: A Dizzy Heights Mystery (2)

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A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought. But here's the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It's up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery. --Back cover.… (more)

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fernandie | Sep 14, 2022 |

England, rural, murder, murder-investigation, amateur-sleuth, situational-humor, verbal-humor, jazz-age, jazz-musicians, family-dynamics, friendship*****

It's 1925 at a country house in rural England the Dizzy Heights jazz band is there to play for a party and meet someone who is just getting into the business of creating phonograph records. But then a man is found dead in a locked room (and the rain is causing severe isolating flooding) but the band members who had been in The War knew that it wasn't suicide. There is a lot of fun (including a bit about a city guy chasing a chicken around the kitchen to get eggs) and there is a rabbit warren of concealed doors and secret stairs to confuse things as they investigate everyone and everything. The story is really good and full of jazzy cant and references to musicians and films from America. I loved it!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Thomas & Mercer/ Amazon Publishing UK via Netgalley. Thank you! (

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A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought. But here's the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It's up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery. --Back cover.

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A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.

When London’s finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time.

But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought.

But here’s the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It’s up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery.

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