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1. Suddenly in Her Sorbet ()
2. Simply to Die for ()
3. A Fete Worse Than Death ()
4. A Stunning Way to Die ()
5. Friend or Faux ()
6. It&#;s Her Funeral ()
7. A Perfect Day for Dying ()
8. Mourning Gloria ()
9. Going Out in Style ()
10. Dying Well ()

1. This Business Is Murder ()
2. Death at Face Value ()
3. Downsized to Death ()
4. Mood to Murder ()

1. A Better Class of Murder ()
2. Forged in Blood ()

1. Family Book of Christmas Tales ()

1. Old Westbury Gardens ()

Suddenly in Her Sorbet

Formal dress and a sharp eye were de rigueur Thursday last, when Helene Harpennis, the busiest fundraiser in the social register, hosted a gala charity ball. Who could have guessed that the grandest of dames would fall victim to poisoned sorbet? Police detective Sam de Vere suspects several of the elite guests, but lovely Lady Margaret Priam, the ex aristocrat, knows her close mouthed class won&#;t confess much to him. Hot on her own trail of clues, savvy Lady Margaret enlists the reluctant aid of throneless Prince Paul Castrocani, as she keeps one well heeled step ahead of de Vere and gains his advantage in more ways than one.

A Stunning Way to Die

When the woman who is blackmailing antiques dealer Bedros Kasparian turns up dead in his shop, Lady Margaret Priam takes the case hoping to clear her dear friend and employer. By the author of Blood Child. Originally in paperback.

Friend or Faux

Since Manhattan&#;s summer season is ever so dull, what else can Lady Margaret do but heed her brother&#;s desperate fax and return to the family castle especially since one of his guests has been murdered? Wit

Full Series List in Order

A Betty Trenka Mystery

A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery

Book List in Order: 19 titles

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• Blood Child
  

  The novel opens with young Hattie Bell deep in a nightmare, dreaming of the baby and husband she lost a few years before. She's currently pregnant, the anonymous surrogate mother for a childless couple. Her hope is that the birth of the baby will end

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• Suddenly in Her Sorbet
  

  A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery - 1
  

  Formal dress and a sharp eye were de rigueur Thursday last, when Helene Harpennis, the busiest fundraiser in the social register, hosted a gala charity ball.
  Who could have guessed that the grandest of dames would fall victim to poisoned sorbet? P

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• Simply to Die for
  

  A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery - 2
  

  Acting as temporary guardian to the niece of her friend, socialite Lynne Jordan, Lady Margaret Priam becomes involved in the mystery surrounding the murder of the young woman's mother four years earlier

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• A Fete Worse Than Death
  

  A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery - 3
  

  A social climber scales her last ladder in this Lady Margaret Priam Mystery, where just before one of her own soirees, Lady Ross is unceremoniously strangled. A guest of the party herself, Lady Margaret Priam quietly figures things out on her own. Th

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• A Stunning Way to Die
  

  A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery - 4
  

The first book in the Lady Margaret Priam mysteries.

Formal dress and a sharp eye were de rigueur Thursday last, when Helene Harpennis, the busiest fundraiser in the social register, hosted a gala charity ball.
Who could have guessed that the grandest of dames would fall victim to poisoned sorbet? Police detective Sam de Vere suspects several of the elite guests, but lovely Lady Margaret Priam, the ex-aristocrat, knows her close-mouthed class won't confess much to him.
Hot on her own trail of clues, savvy Lady Margaret enlists the reluctant aid of throneless Prince Paul Castrocani, as she keeps one well-heeled step ahead of de Vere and gains his advantage -- in more ways than one.

An excellent start to the series and well worth reading if you can manage to get a copy. Well plotted, with a good set of characters.

I have had this book sitting on my bookshelves since the 80's and thought it was about time that I dusted it off and read itI wasn't disappointed!