Publisher's Synopsis
It has been a night of festivities at Hampton Court Palace, with a soiree in the Great Hall. But when one of the ladies in residence doesn't answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate.
What Mrs Bramble finds shocks the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin slumped over her bureau with a knife in her back.
With the police seemingly determined to bark up the wrong tree, Mrs Bramble decides to take up her own investigation with the help of Miss Franklin's maid. After all, as servants, they know just how many dangerous secrets and secret squabbles the seemingly genteel residents of the palace apartments harbour.
