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Tessa Arlen
TESSA ARLEN, the daughter of a British diplomat, had lived in or visited her parents in Singapore, Cairo, Berlin, the Persian Gulf, Beijing, Delhi and Warsaw by the time she was sixteen. She came to the U.S. in 1980 and worked as an H.R. recruiter for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee... show more

TESSA ARLEN, the daughter of a British diplomat, had lived in or visited her parents in Singapore, Cairo, Berlin, the Persian Gulf, Beijing, Delhi and Warsaw by the time she was sixteen. She came to the U.S. in 1980 and worked as an H.R. recruiter for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games, where she interviewed her future husband for a job. This is Tessa's first novel. She lives in Washington.
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Celticlady's Reading Room
Celticlady's Reading Room rated it 9 years ago
Death Sits Down to Dinner is the second book about amateur sleuths Lady Clementine Montfort and her housekeeper, Mrs.Jackson, the first book is Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman. At a birthday party for Winston Churchill, hosted by Hermione Kingsley who is a patroness of a large charity. A death occ...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it 10 years ago
The introductory lines of Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman immediately captivated me and made me feel as though I had been transported to the Edwardian era. In a story that feels something like Downton Abbey meets dinner murder mystery, the novel follows the upstairs society and the downstairs staf...
ABookGeek
ABookGeek rated it 10 years ago
I had really high hopes when I agreed to participate in the blog tour - and I was most definitely not disappointed. From the opening paragraph I was hooked and thoroughly immersed in the setting and the story. The book begins as Edith Jackson, the housekeeper for Lord and Lady Montfort, is getting...
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