The Pigeon Pie Mystery
  • Published: 1 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307947697
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

The Pigeon Pie Mystery

A Novel

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Julia Stuart follows up her bestselling novel The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise with a clever murder mystery set in Victorian England and brimming with her signature charm, warmhearted romances, and fabulous characters.

 When Indian Princess Alexandrina—nickname “Mink”—is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though it’s rumored to be haunted, Mink and her lady’s maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on her offer and join the palace’s eccentric collection of guests. But when a reviled General-Major dies after eating a pie Pooki made, it makes her the number one suspect in a murder investigation.
 
Not about to let her faithful servant hang, Mink begins an investigation of her own. . . only to discover that Hampton Court isn't such a safe place to live after all. 
 
  • Published: 1 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307947697
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Julia Stuart

Julia Stuart is a freelance journalist and former feature writer for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. She lives in Bahrain. The Matchmaker of Périgord is her first novel.

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Praise for The Pigeon Pie Mystery

  • "Cracking a Julia Stuart novel is like opening the door of an old-fashioned English tearoom. A bell tinkles merrily, and you enter a cozy world.... Stuart's fictional characters might seem at times to have stepped out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, but they too are deftly sketched." --The Washington Post
  • "A delicate yet kooky romp." --Oprah.com, Book of the Week

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