Death at Windsor Castle
     
The third instalment in C.C. Benison’s hugely successful, internationally published Her Majesty Investigates series finds Housemaid Jane Bee dusting the props for a sumptuous week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, the Queen’s favourite haunt. But the Investiture of the new Knights of the Garter ends up combining pomp with extremely unpleasant circumstance.... Mild-mannered art curator Roger Pettibon is found dead, a ceremonial sword in his back and a Royal Garter around his knee. The police are quick to arrest moody Court painter Victor Fabiani, at work on a portrait of the regal face that launched a billion postage stamps. But Fabiani's confession—despite its story of art forgery and blackmail—doesn't ring true to Jane. Nor to Her Majesty, who dispatches her on a discreet inquiry among the cream of society gathered for the Ascot races. And, as Jane traces the twisty lineage of more than one family, Windsor's ancient battlements witness a second death—and their second ordeal in five years, by fire and water.... 
Praise for C.C. Benison’s novels: “Offers something out of the ordinary…fascinating reading.” “Because of the writing skills of C.C. Benison, who gives the reader the feeling of being a Palace insider, with all the good gossip, the pet names for the Royals, the unmentionable scourge of the corgis, even the secret of what the Queen actually keeps in her purse… Really excellent good fun.”
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