Dead as a Scone

Murder is afoot is the sedate English town of Royal Tunbridge Wells ... and the crime may be brewing in a tea pot! Nigel Owen is having a rotten year. Downsized from a cushy management job at an insurance company in London, he is forced to accept a temporary post as managing director of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum. Alas, he regrets living in a small town in Kent, he prefers drinking coffee (with a vengeance), and he roundly dislikes Flick Adams, PhD, an… (plus)

Murder is afoot is the sedate English town of Royal Tunbridge Wells ... and the crime may be brewing in a tea pot! Nigel Owen is having a rotten year. Downsized from a cushy management job at an insurance company in London, he is forced to accept a temporary post as managing director of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum. Alas, he regrets living in a small town in Kent, he prefers drinking coffee (with a vengeance), and he roundly dislikes Flick Adams, PhD, an American scientist recently named the museum's curator. But then, the wildly unexpected happens. Dame Elspeth Hawker, the museum's chief benefactor, keels over a board meeting-the apparent victim of a fatal heart attack. With the Dame's demise, the museum's world-famous collection is up for grabs, her cats, dog, and parrot are living at with Flick and Nigel-and the two prima donnas find themselves facing professional ruin. But Flick-who knows a thing or two about forensic science-is convinced that Dame Elspeth did not die a natural death. As Flick and Nigel follow the clues-including a cryptic Biblical citation-they discover that a crime perpetrated more than a century ago sowed the seeds for a contemporary murder.