The Butler Did It

Combined, here, are two, ever-popular types of detective stories - Inland Mysteries and Butler Murder Mysteries. Detective Raymond Masters arrives at Windstone Manor - high atop a tiny, remote, snow blown, island off the Maine Coast - to supervise a Scavenger Hunt designed by Elliott Stone, the aging, despicable, Lord of the Manor, to allow one of his heirs to enhance his or her position in his will. The participants include the five butlers who formerly worked for him (most of whom hate each other and Elliott), and his nephew (a self-centered, amoral, 30-year-old who has lived most of his life at Windstone). Then there is Carl, the old man's lawyer; Bea, his nurse and secretary; Angie, the cook and maid; and Hyde, the current young butler. Five bodies later, Masters (once again surviving a strange little policeman sidekick) solves the cases amid the unrelenting, freezing storm that hold the group captive on the rock amid the raging sea. One of 17 novels in the Raymond Masters Detective Series - reviewed as 'good reads' in cozy murder mysteries, sleuth novels, private detective fiction and detective mysteries.