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Death in the Garden & The Accomplice
Elizabeth Ironside
Paperback, 294 pages; 2005 (1996) and Paperback, 368 pages; 2006 (1996)
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Today at half—past two in the afternoon I was acquitted of the murder of my husband.
So begins the tale of Diana Pollexfen, the beautiful bohemian at the heart of this English crime novel, Death in the Garden. In 1925, hours after a heated argument over Diana's free-spirited lifestyle, her husband, member of Parliament George Pollexfen, is found murdered in the garden of their country home, poisoned with chemicals from Diana's photography studio. After a very public trial, Diana is declared innocent. She retreats from public life, and both she and the unsolved crime eventually fade from society's memory. But upon Diana's death sixty years later, her grandniece Helena, a young attorney, learns about her aunt's past and becomes obsessed with solving the murder. Written by the wife of the British Ambassador to the U. S. (Elizabeth Ironside is a pseudonym), Death in the Garden is an intriguing whodunit for devoted Anglophiles. Also available: , another intriguing mystery from Elizabeth Ironside, is bound to keep fans reading late into the night.
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