Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
Aug 25, 1977
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN-10
0140043349
ISBN-13
9780140043341
Description
Mavis Ironmonger is nobody's idea of a good diplomatic wife. She drinks too much, she's awfully friendly with the staff at the Washington embassy, and her music-hall roots have a way of bursting out at the most inappropriate moments. Indeed, it's at an embassy reception that Mavis manages to insult a visiting ambassador and get herself hauled off to sober up. With the party winding down, Mavis is due downstairs, to say the official goodbyes, but in fact she has already made her final farewell, courtesy of a gunshot.
Genres
Mystery