Helpful Score: 2
The life of Esmond Chadleigh is celebrated in Bracketts House Museum. However most of Chadleigh's work is out of print, leaving the author out of mind and Bracketts out of funds. An American professor can help keep Bracketts running-in exchange for assistance on her Chadleigh biography. But the house's mistrustful trustees fear the biographer may root out the skeletons in Chadleigh's closet-especially after uncovering one in his garden.
Straightlaced Carole and bohemian Jude are out to solve another Fethering murder/ Simon Brett is a fun, British writer.
Pleasant enough, and the reader gets more insight into Jude. As always I like the interaction between Carole and Jude. Also thought the board meetings were rather amusing. Going in I had an expectation of what the big secret would be, I guessed wrong there, but about midway through the book I figured out whodunit (past and present). Not something I'll read again but it fulfilled my need for an amusing and unchallenging mystery, and I'll read more in the series.
