Shadow of the Queen - Scott Finley

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Résumé :
October 1929Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning ship's nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire apparently leaping overboard a day before the New York stock market crashes. Add in an abusive husband pushed down an open lift shaft and a crewman left to cook against a boiler in the ship's engine room, and a killer will walk free when the ship reaches New York unless Maeve and Agatha can unwind the clues -- but with 2,935 suspects on board, every revolution of the Queen Victoria's propellers means time is running out. 378 pages including bonus chapter for next book in series, a reader's guide for book clubs and a lexicon of definitions and people from the era who are mentioned in the book. First in a series.A delightful cozy mystery. Marie Bostwick, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly. This wonderful debut will keep readers guessing until the end. J. Kenner, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Release Me....

Biographie:
Scott's fascination with the golden age of trans-Atlantic luxury liners began at an early age with reading Walter Lord's Titanic classic, A Night to Remember. The later discovery that sinkings were not the norm and that ships actually crossed the Atlantic without incident didn't dampen his enthusiasm. He wanted a ship to put in his parent's backyard to play with after elementary school: unfortunately, being a fifth generation Texan and living inland in Dallas, ocean liners are hard to find. After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism Scott channeled his energies into a career in broadcast news, working for all four major network affiliates, then afterward doing training and corporate videos. Following that was a stint doing media for non-profit entities. Along the way, and despite his best efforts, he collected one Emmy? nomination, 19 Telly Awards, three Aegis Awards, two Addy awards and five Best Newscast in Texas awards from the Associated Press, as well as an honorable mention from PR News for blogging for a non-profit. Outside of media and broadcast, he is the author of A Little Theatre, a two-act comedy that has been produced by several Texas community theaters with relatively few over-ripe tomatoes thrown at the actors.Scott is an actor himself, having over thirty community theatrical productions to his credit as well as working as an interactive performer at Texas' Scarborough Renaissance Festival? (where he says he wouldn't have worn the white hose if he didn't have the legs for it) and in murder mystery productions (usually as the victim).To further warp his personality, he was an actor and writer for an old west gunfight show (again, usually the victim).In his free time he enjoys writing, reading, Lionel trains, and repairing/restoring radios from the 1930's - 1950's.But the call of the sea persisted....and ultimately found voice in the Voyages of the Queen series. So, in a way, he did finally get that ship to play with...

Sommaire:
October 1929Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning ship's nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire apparently leaping overboard a day before the New York stock market crashes. Add in an abusive husband pushed down an open lift shaft and a crewman left to cook against a boiler in the ship's engine room, and a killer will walk free when the ship reaches New York unless Maeve and Agatha can unwind the clues -- but with 2,935 suspects on board, every revolution of the Queen Victoria's propellers means time is running out. 378 pages including bonus chapter for next book in series, a reader's guide for book clubs and a lexicon of definitions and people from the era who are mentioned in the book. First in a series.A delightful cozy mystery. Marie Bostwick, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Book Club for Troublesome Women This wonderful debut will keep readers guessing until the end. J. Kenner, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Tower....