In the Crypt with a Candlestick - Daisy Waugh
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Penelope Rawlins
Tags: Suspense, Novel, Mystery, Adults
Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins, Sir Ecgbert Tode, of Tode Hall, has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at 93 he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil., Emma - Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri., Unfortunately, her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too mad, too lefty or too happy in Australia) to take on management of their large and important home, so the mantle passes to a distant relative and his glamorous wife., Not long after the new owners take over, Lady Tode is found dead in the mausoleum. Accident? Or is there more going on behind the scenes of Tode Hall than an outsider would ever guess?, In the traditions of two great but very different British writers, Agatha Christie and P. G. Wodehouse, Waughs hilarious and entirely original twist on the country-house murder mystery comes complete with stiff upper lips, even
