Gladys Mitchell

THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN... BUT MURDER IS THE MOST ANCIENT ART OF ALL. From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idylli But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems ... In these classic crime stories of midsummer murder and madness, the mercury is climbing - and so is the body count. Meet a sunbather with a guilty secret, a holiday rep whose Mediterranean summer season is about to go horribly wrong, and the garden party guests whose host should be very, very afraid.
It's time to pour yourself a cold drink, put out the sun lounger and prepare to spend your summer holiday with the best writers of crime fiction's golden age - as well as some very shady characters indeed.