Today I'm linking up with Carole from Carole's Random Life of Books for Books from the Backlog. I really enjoy the chance to feature a book that's been hiding in the piles of books for far too long!
Goodreads: Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
Blurb: When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit.
Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder.
Why It Needs to Come Off the Shelf: I had completely forgotten about this one until today when I was scrolling through my dusty NetGalley shelf. It sounds fantastic and since it came out seven years ago I desperately need to read it!
It does sound good. I hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that I am not the only one with books that have been sitting for years from NetGalley. This sounds really good so I hope that you enjoy it! I think that it always feels good to finally turn in a review for these older books lingering on NetGalley.
ReplyDeleteHa, dusty shelves would stress me out on NG! Does sound like it could be your kind of read.
ReplyDeleteOoo... I'm having a bit of thing about 1920s murder mysteries at the moment... It reminds me of the stories my Gran used to tell of her days before she got married - she worked at the Soho telephone exchange as a telephonist and was a flapper:)). I love the fabulous cover and will be looking out for this one - thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love the cover. 🙂
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