The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly (2005 hardback 1st) New - Signed

The Bee's Kiss(The Joe Sandilands Series)\nby Barbara Cleverly\nThis hardback has been published in the UK in 2005 by Constable & Robinson and is a first edition, first impression, which has been signed by the author.\n*\nIt is 1926 and Joe Sandilands is back from India enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet there is darkness behind all that post war gaiety. \nA woman has been found bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a much respected member of the British establishment, Dame BeatriceJagow-Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens, and so Scotland yard send Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. \nHe soon discovers that this Dame was no tweed-wearing matron. Titian-haired Beatri.