Chipping Campden Murders (Miss Tayke Investigates (murder mystery best seller, women sleuths, British detective, crime fiction, female protagonist) Book 79)

In this bestselling murder mystery Miss Tayke accepts an invitation from her companions Cedric and Bunty to spend a few days at a small luxury hotel in the old wool merchant’s town of Chipping Campden in the north Cotswolds.

On their first outing to Blenheim Castle the doyen among women sleuths comes across a dead body in a rose bed. The unfortunate victim has a silver arrow wedged between the shoulder blades and the local CID decree murder by a person or persons unknown.

Next day an identical slaying occurs at the annual Morris Men dancing festival followed by yet another at nearby Warwick Castle that same afternoon. The police are baffled by these brutal murders but the female protagonist Miss Tayke has a premonition that leads to the arrest of the maniacal murderer at a sleazy cabaret club…

This crime thriller presages the deftness of the famous British female private detective and in solving this traditional British murder mystery the dogged leading light among women sleuths pulls out all the stops to make her mark as an amateur private investigator.