Laura Deane and the Feathered Nest (Laura Deane investigates, #1)

Laura Deane, statuesque and passingly beautiful, had imagined her life would be altogether different at the age of thirty-six. Instead, washed up on the far side of the Second World War, she is living above a chemist with her elderly mother, Maeve, a string of lacklustre jobs, ranging from minor acting parts to modelling lingerie behind her.

Falling back on her limited typing abilities, a secretarial position with Albert Coombe, a private inquiry agent, seems to offer more scope for her obse...