I had a lot of fun in reading this brilliant and witty Golden Age mystery.
It's highly entertaining, gripping and I fell in love with the characters and the style of writing.
Agnes and Andrews are a great couple of detective, they reminded me of Nick&Nora with an intellectual side (first time I read an Auden quote in a mystery).
The plot is well crafted and the mystery full of red herrings and twists. The solution came as a surprise and was satisfying.
The historical background is vivid, a great depiction of life at the beginning of WWII.
I laughed a lot an
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mined couldn't put it down.

I enjoyed this book and the characters Agnes and Andrew were brilliant and brought a touch of humour and ease to the story, really couldn't put this book down once I started as I wanted to know who dun it.
Twists and turns throughout and I thought it could have been any one of the characters at certain points in the book, as we got towards the end I did have an idea but had to keep reading to see if I was right.
Murder with a touch of humour, fantastic characters and enjoyed the plot

Nap Lombard is the pseudonym of husband and wife writing team, Pamela Hansford Johnson and Gordon Neil Stewart. I must admit that I'd never heard of him, but I recently read and enjoyed 'An Error of Judgement ' by her, so when I heard this was coming out I was keen to get hold of a copy.

Set during the 'phoney war'speriod of WW2, when air-raids were still thought funny. Agnes and Clem find a dead body in an air-raid shelter, so she and her husband Andrew set about trying to solve the mystery. The story is quite preposterous, but I don't read golden age mysteries for their realism, and I found it fun. Agnes and Andrew reminded me of Tommy and Tuppence, and this was more of an adventure than a tightly plotted mystery. The pair wrote one other mystery which I'd like to read as well.

*Many thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a review copy in exchange for an honest opinion.*