Available for the first time on Kindle! Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmost efficiency. When, therefore, a certain Professor Hallam rejects three girls sent by her to apply for the post of his secretary and they each pronounce him “impossible”, Lucille herself sets out to interview the Professor at his home in Hampshire. He is, she finds, eccentric—even impossible; but … impossible; but he represents a challenge and, what is more, an excuse to delay what promises to be a trying holiday in Paris. She stays on to tame and to organize him—a less formidable task than she had imagined; in fact, she grows fond of him. But the atmosphere is somewhat disturbed first by the arrival of a debonair French art expert in search of paintings left to the Professor by his mother, and the next by a hysterical girl on the track of her runaway fiancé. The paintings have unaccountably disappeared; the mystery is still unsolved by the time Lucille’s work for the Professor comes to an end and she has to set off for Paris. At her aunt’s shop in the Rue des Dames, the arrival there of the indomitable art expert, the hysterical girl, the Professor, and a persistent suitor to boot, throw Lucille’s normally orderly life into complete upheaval.
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I enjoyed this book so much. The characters were so well developed and interesting people. The mystery was interesting, and this is a gentle mystery without distressing scenes or language. I was delighted with the ending. The book reminds me of one of my favorite authors, Patricia Wentworth, and some of my favorite Agatha Christie plots. I’m happy to see this author has written other books, and I will seek them out.
I did not finish.
I just found this author in Kindle, and this is one I will look for a paper copy to read. She would have been contemporary with the Great Mistresses of Crime, Christie & Sayers.
Boring. Didn’t even read the whole book
Purchased this book because I thought it might be a fun read. It was okay but the plot was under developed. Just a simple mystery that ends by introducing an improbable wrap up of the mystery.
Ok I admit that I read this book until 2 am and picked it up again at about 3:30 am after a short power nap. It was so well written. Amazing characters lost and found and lost each other. Read the book. I promise to read everything else this author writes.
I won’t remember that I read this book by next week. Nothing particularly intriguing.
I didn’t read the full text