A sprightly period debut that shows New York's preeminent female detective and her assistant plying their trade in 1945. When the matriarch of the well-to-do Collins family is bashed to death by a crystal ball in a locked room, her relatives ask Lillian Pentecost to look into the case.read more
A sprightly period debut that shows New York's preeminent female detective and her assistant plying their trade in 1945. When the matriarch of the well-to-do Collins family is bashed to death by a crystal ball in a locked room, her relatives ask Lillian Pentecost to look into the case.