Murder in Married Life: A Tessa Crichton Mystery

'Stabbed?' she repeated, in horror. 'Was he really?'

'I'm afraid so. From behind. He was sitting at his desk.'

The soignée actress Tessa Crichton would rather be shopping and generally luxuriating in the pleasure of being newly married. However, she is soon embroiled in a plot involving an old acquaintance (murdered) and a friend (blackmailed). Being as shrewd as she is mischievous she begins to draw various conclusions, not all of them correct.

Many of the encounters in the story take place d...