Anne Perry
The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the princeâ€™s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queenâ€™s monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet.,With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pittsâ€™ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruitedâ€“to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guestsâ€™ conversations, scan their bedrooms, and scrutinize their troubled faces for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have lead to murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young womanâ€“as seems increasingly likelyâ€“Pittâ€™s career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
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Buckingham Palace Gardens