Ти Кинси – лучшие произведения

Неуклонно следовать золотым стандартам Кристи и Конан Дойля – и одновременно смело выворачивать их наизнанку… Невозможно? А вот и нет! Новый самородок британского детектива виртуозно доказывает обратное. Сочетание классической головоломной интриги и потрясающего современного юмора – стихия Кинси. Весной 1909 года леди Эмили Хардкасл, известная всей округе как выдающийся сыщик, и ее горничная Флоренс Армстронг, гроза окрестных бузотеров, решили наконец-то отдохнуть. А на досуге задумали исполнить свою давнюю мечту – купить автомобиль и научиться его водить. (То-то остолбенеют все окрестные джентльмены!) Но судьба двух достойных дам, как…

Англия, 1909 год. Леди Хардкасл и ее верная горничная Флоренс Армстронг известны как успешные детективы-любители, но у леди есть еще одна страсть – "живые картины", то есть кинематограф и анимация. Поэтому приезд кинематографистов с фильмом "Ведьмина погибель" для нее – шанс показать публике свои произведения. Однако сеанс и пирушка по этому случаю закончились жутчайшим образом. Наутро актера Бэзила Ньюхауса нашли с проколотым сердцем, а рядом с ним – куклу, его точную копию, чье сердце тоже было пронзено. Точно так же ведьма в фильме убила его персонажа. В который раз невинное желание развлечься обернулось для неугомонного дуэта леди и горничной смертельно запутанной историей…

It’s Christmas 1909, and for once Lady Hardcastle—respectable gentlewoman, amateur spy—and her lady’s maid, Florence Armstrong, are setting sleuthing aside. They are invited to the festivities up at The Grange, as guests of Sir Hector and Lady Farley-Stroud. But barely have corks been popped and parlour games played when a mysterious crime comes to light. Someone has broken in while the revellers were distracted and made off with a priceless pearl necklace. Lady Hardcastle and Flo are determined to catch the thief—but with so many Christmas guests encamped at The Grange, is it possible that the felon is hiding in plain sight? With the clues stacking up, Lady Hardcastle bears down on her culprit. But just as the pieces come together, it begins to look as if there is something more devious afoot at The Grange…

July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing—and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve. The first to disappear is Dr Goddard, a scientist doing something terribly top-secret for the government. Gone too are his strongbox and its mysterious contents. By the time Lady Hardcastle has questioned the horde of international guests, her number-one suspect has been dispatched in grisly circumstances—and then the others start vanishing too. As the case begins to look like a matter of national security, Lady Hardcastle takes advice from her brother in the secret service. But could there be an even more personal connection at play? To solve the case, Lady Hardcastle may face a shocking discovery of her own.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth. With her trusted maid and confidante, the formidable Flo, Lady Hardcastle sets off in pursuit of the truth as time runs out for the accused suffragette. Was she set up? And if so, is the real culprit a traitor to the cause—or part of a darker conspiracy?