Another exciting installment in this cozy historical mystery series featuring the irrepressible Lady Eleanor Swift. Along with her enigmatic and brilliant butler, Clifford, Eleanor works to prevent a huge injustice while on a cruise down the Nile.
Lady Swift, her butler, and her domestic help are on a holiday in Egypt in the summer of 1924. While the help goes on ahead to ready a townhouse she’s rented for them all in Bawaaba, Eleanor and Clifford will travel on the river via a decrepit SS Cleopatra instead of the luxurious ship she thought she had booked passage on. While underway, one of the passengers is found dead. Though others insist it was suicide, Eleanor and Clifford think it murder. An investigation ensues.
I love the characters and the historical detail in this series and always look forward to the next installment. Its success has to do with the mix of both of those elements combined with a compelling mystery for the due to analyze and solve. Eleanor is not the typical lady of the times, much to the chagrin and consternation of her butler, though he actually encourages her inquisitive nature and her courage. I enjoy reading about this era and relish the descriptions of life and times in that period.
If you do want an absorbing cozy series, I’d suggest you start from the beginning of this one and read them in order. Hope to see more of Eleanor’s beau, Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon, in the next episode.
This is #19 in a series that should be read from the beginning, in order.
Genre - cozy historical mystery series
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