"Delightfully refreshing WW II cozy"
World War II is raging and the residents of the small
hamlet of Sitting Marsh are looking to the lady of the
manor Lady Elizabeth for guidance during those perilous
times. They don't know that the owner of the manor house
is cash poor due to her ex-husband's gambling debts. Lady
Elizabeth keeps up the appearance of a wealthy titled
landowner so she can be a comfort to the villagers and an
example of inspiration due to her contributions to the war
effort. She has donated a half-acre of her land to the villagers
for a Victory Garden so they can grow fruits and vegetables
to add variety to their rationed diets. When her assistant
Polly takes over one of the plots of a recently deceased
villager, she unearths the body of a man whose face is all
smashed up. Feeling responsible for all her tenants, even
those deceased, Lady Elizabeth embarks on her own
investigation, one that almost gets her killed. DIG DEEP FOR MURDER is a delightfully refreshing cozy that
sheds some light on how the small English towns coped
during the war years. The interaction of the heroine with
her house staff and some of the more colorful villagers are
quite humorous and helps defuse the action when it gets too
intense. The mystery is well constructed and the heroine's
investigation follows a logical path, which makes for a
very believable plot appreciated by the audience. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 10, 2002
SummaryLady Elizabeth has turned the Manor House lawn into victory
garden plots for the villagers. But an uninvited guest-in
the form of a corpse-wilts the festivities...
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