A surprising murder in an English village pub sparks the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling Inspector Richard Gorey series, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, who remains “one of the most interesting writers of detective fiction today” (Houston Chronicle).
On a quiet night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Tredenor was shot from his chair in The Queen pub.Inspector Richard Gorrie was called in to investigate, and quickly realized that everyone who knew Tredenor – from his widow Alice, to the staff at his mansion, to his business partner – had different opinions of him. To complicate matters, Gorey stumbled upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States who looked exactly like Tredenor.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Gorey's partner at Scotland Yard, is busy with an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins sets out in search of her, the two investigations begin to converge.
Funny and whimsical, driven by Richard Gorey's gift for sniffing out clues from the most unusual places, The Red Queen is a successful return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series described as "delightful, surprising, even charming" (The Washington Post).
