Book description
One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...
Guests assemble at Hamlet Hall for a New Year's Eve party to remember.
They are to take part in a murder mystery game with a 1920s twist, and everyone has their own part to play.
But the evening has barely begun when…
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The brief scenario on the book's cover reminded me of a classic Agatha Christie novel. Neither Miss Marple nor Hercule Poirot, however, were among the guests gathered at a remote hotel on the North Devon coast for a New Year's Eve murder mystery game devised by a member of staff.
I was not surprised that make-believe quickly became fact, nor that everyone present—guests and staff—would have a motive. My attention was gripped by the many twists and turns in the story, linked to an old lighthouse and two deaths in the nearby village years earlier.
I didn't guess the identity…
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