Death at the Savoy
A Priscilla Tempest Mystery, Book 1
An atmospheric, entertaining new mystery series introducing a plucky heroine and set in the world’s most famous hotel.
It’s 1968. London is in full swing and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are squabbling in the American Bar while Noël Coward drinks champagne. Royals wait upstairs in luxurious suites for discreet encounters. In short, all is as it should be at the Savoy.
If only it weren’t for the dead body in Room 705.
Could it be murder at the Savoy? Impossible! Who could have done such a thing?
Suspicion falls upon Priscilla Tempest, the quick-witted head of the Savoy press office who has a penchant for champagne, the wrong sort of men — and trouble.
When it is discovered that Priscilla had been with the deceased — a notorious international arms dealer — the night before he was found dead, she is questioned by Scotland Yard Inspector Robert 'Charger' Lightfoot and is suddenly under the unforgiving eye of her boss, the Savoy’s straitlaced general manager, Clive Banville. Her job on the line, her life in danger, Priscilla must elude the police and the general manager’s duplicitous wife, ward off the amorous advances of a famous drunken actor, and discover whether that really was a member of the royal family seen leaving the victim’s suite shortly before his body was discovered.
Death at the Savoy is an intoxicating blend of mystery, suspense and humour. And it’s just the beginning!
Prudence Emery was born in Nanaimo, educated in Vancouver, and lived in London, UK, and Toronto, ON, before moving to Victoria, BC. She has worked as the press and public relations officer at the prestigious Savoy Hotel, mingling with celebrities and politicians such as Canada's past Prime Minister Pierre-Elliot Trudeau and actor Marlene Dietrich. She has worked on more than a hundred film productions and is the author of the bestselling memoir Nanaimo Girl (Cormorant Books, 2020).
Ron Base is a former newspaper and magazine journalist and movie critic. His works include twenty novels, two novellas and four nonfiction books. He has been published in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. He has written screenplays and worked with legendary filmmakers such as John Borman (Deliverance) and Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields). Currently, Base divides his time between Milton, ON, and Fort Myers, FL.
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