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"It's 1968, London is in full swing, and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous, and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are squabbling in the American Bar while No�l Coward drinks champagne. Royals wait upstairs in luxurious suites for discreet encounters. All is as it should be at the Savoy. If only it weren't for the dead body in Room 705. Could it be murder? Impossible! Who could have done such a thing? Suspicion falls upon Priscilla Tempest, the quick-witted Canadian head of the Savoy press office who has a penchant for champagne, the wrong sort of men--and trouble. When it is discovered that Priscilla had been with the deceased--a notorious international arms dealer--the night before he was found dead, she is questioned by Scotland Yard Inspector Robert ""Charger"" Lightfoot and is suddenly under the unforgiving eye of her boss, the Savoy's straitlaced general manager, Clive Banville. With her job on the line and her life in danger, Priscilla must elude the police and the general manager's duplicitous wife, ward off the amorous advances of a famous drunken actor, and discover whether that really was a member of the royal family seen leaving the victim's suite shortly before his body was discovered."

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"""The artistic, accomplished voice of Eunice Wong introduces listeners to the glamorous world of the stately Savoy Hotel in London, its famous guests, and backstairs shenanigans...While this story is technically a murder mystery, listeners will spend more time spying on the rich, royal, and famous than pondering suspects. This is the first novel in a new series. Let's hope they are all as effervescent and fun as this one."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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Prudence Emery is the bestselling author of the memoir Nanaimo Girl. Born in Nanaimo and educated in Vancouver, she lived in London and Toronto before moving to Victoria, British Columbia. She has worked on more than a hundred film productions and as the press and public-relations officer at the prestigious Savoy Hotel. Ron Base is a former newspaper and magazine journalist and movie critic. His works include twenty novels, two novellas, and four nonfiction books, and he has written screenplays and worked with legendary filmmakers such as John Borman and Roland Joffe. Currently, he divides his time between Milton, Ontario, and Fort Myers, Florida. Eunice Wong is an award-winning, Juilliard-trained actor who works in professional theatres across the United States and in New York City.

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