Also for the Mystery Game Club our Leitmotiv remains
Old MacDonald had a Farm
Our next book to be discussed will be
A Three Dog Problem
3rd April 2024 at 7:00 pm ONLINE
If you wish to participate to our discussion, just send us an email to confirm. You will receive the link to the ZOOM meeting on the morning of the event. Please read the book just up to the point given below.
“Sometimes, you didn’t know how you would endure until teatime. Sometimes, half a decade was gone in the blink of an eye.”
A Three Dog Problem
by S.J. Bennett
3rd April 2024 at 7:00 pm
ONLINE with anna e il libro
This is the follow up to SJ Bennett’s The Windsor Knot, the start of this series which is based on the premise that Queen Elizabeth II is a sleuth to be reckoned with, she has been solving mysteries for years, all below the radar.
When an oil painting gifted by an Aussie artist of the Royal Yacht Britannia, given to the Queen in the 1960s and hung outside her bedroom, shows up unexpectedly in a Royal Navy exhibition in Portsmouth, she tasks her able and discreet assistant private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, to investigate.
However, when Rozie struggles to get anywhere, the Queen, ‘the Boss’, knows something is terribly wrong. Matters are exacerbated when a dead body is found in the Buckingham Palace swimming pool by a shocked Simon, the Queen’s Private Secretary. Whose body? Why? More to be revealed…. by reading the book till the end of chapter 46 (“The Queen graciously accepted. Privately, she wondered how much they really understood.”).
Remember do not read the book till the end. Together we will try to find out what ‘the Boss’ already knows!
If you wish to participate, please let us know per email. Thank you!
SJ Bennett’s Revelation about the book’s title:
“The UK title of this book comes from physics (‘the three body problem’) and from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Whenever Sherlock Holmes has a very difficult case to solve, he has to smoke three pipes to do it and it becomes a ‘three pipe problem’. I loved this idea. So when the Queen has an exceptionally difficult case to consider, she needs to take three dogs for a walk in Buckingham Palace garden; hence ‘a three dog problem’. In this case they are two dorgis and a corgi, because I’m afraid to say the Queen was down to her last corgi in the autumn of 2016, when the book is set.”
