Death with Reservations (Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries)

The hotel's owner, Cecily Sinclair and her new partner (business and personal) Baxter cannot help but be concerned with the Lord's death. Food poisoning has been identified as the cause and the hotel is the only place he ate. Cecily begins to investigate, but before she gets very far her gardener dies in a suspicious accident. Cecily soon realizes that there is a plethora of suspects, both staff and guests, who had ample motive to want the judge dead.

The latest installment in the "Pennyfoot Hotel" saga is as delightful and charming as the previous book in the series. Readers are treated to an intriguing who-done-it and a glimpse into a society that is on the verge of enormous change that blurs the line between the gentry and the middle class. The developing relationship between Cecily and Baxter adds spice to a delicious meal.

Harriet Klausner


A fun to read historical mystery   November 25, 1997
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The winds of social change are in the air, sweeping across Edwardian England in 1908, even reaching isolated villages such as Badger's End location of the famous Pennyfoot Hotel. Two London suffragettes have come to the hotel in order to make one of the guests miserable. Lord Bertram is the judge who sent the pair to prison and insured that they suffered during their incarceration. The duo never has a chance to put their plan into operation as their intended victim is poisoned.

The hotel's owner, Cecily Sinclair and her new partner (business and personal) Baxter cannot help but be concerned with the Lord's death. Food poisoning has been identified as the cause and the hotel is the only place he ate. Cecily begins to investigate, but before she gets very far her gardener dies in a suspicious accident. Cecily soon realizes that there is a plethora of suspects, both staff and guests, who had ample motive to want the judge dead.

The latest installment in the "Pennyfoot Hotel" saga is as delightful and charming as the previous book in the series. Readers are treated to an intriguing who-done-it and a glimpse into a society that is on the verge of enormous change that blurs the line between the gentry and the middle class. The developing relationship between Cecily and Baxter adds spice to a delicious meal.

Harriet Klausner