Buckingham Palace Gardens, Anne Perry
The Book Thomas and Charlotte Pitt are back again. This time Special Branch is called in to hush up a scandal of royal proportions so that a Cape to Cairo Pitt is dispatched to investigate the murder of a prostitute in Buckingham Palace. Apparently the Prince of Wales has thrown a wild party with his houseguests while his mother is away. One of the guests is apparently insane, but able to hide it, because a sex worker was found gruesomely murdered. Narraway and Pitt are certain it's a guest because all of the servants can account for their time. When a maid quits on the spot afterwards, Narraway and Pitt ask Pitt's maid, Gracie Phipps, to go in undercover and work on the case. Along the way, Gracie makes enemies of the other workers, but she uncovers several important clues. Then, she notices one of the guests seems to be detecting as well, Gracie, knowing this woman knows the other guests better than she, tries to figure out what she knows. Then, the woman is found dead and...
