After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson (Dandy Gilver - 2005 hb- 1st)

After the Armistice Baill(The Dandy Gilver Mysteries - Book One)\nby Catriona McPherson\nThis hardcover has been published in the UK in 2005 by Constable& Robinson Ltd and is a first edition, first impression.\n*\nDandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off atschool and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to awhimper in the spring of 1922 and a little light snooping seemslike harmless fun. Before long the puzzle of what really happenedto the Duffy Diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been sweptaside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottagein Galloway. Society and the law seem ready to call it an accidentbut Dandy, along with Cara Duffy's fiance Alec, is sure there ismore going on than meets the eye.\nWhat is being hidden by the Duffy family: the watchful Lena, thecold and distant Clemence and old Gregory Duffy with his air ofquiet sadness, not to mention Cara herself whose secret alwaysseems just out of view? Dandy must learn .