The Black Cat Murders: A Cotswolds Country House Murder (Heathcliff Lennox Book 2)
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
Rating: 5 of 5
This is the second book in the Heathcliff Lennox series. It can be read stand-alone, but I highly suggest reading the first book before reading this. The characters are funny and knowing what went before makes it even better.
Major Lennox (never Heathcliff!) is summoned to the home of his childhood friend when an opera singer dies and the doctor involved believes there has been foul play.
It just so happens that said friend has become engaged to a very rich oil man from Texas and wants Lennox to meet him.
Chief Inspector Swift is also present, though he now works for Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate.
The servant class is coming into their own. Both in the previous book and in this one, Lennox is surprised by all that they do not only for work but for enjoyment. They are pulling Lennox into the nineteenth century and he is enjoying it, well except for certain individuals who keep talking when he has asked them to stop.
The whodunnit is good but, for me, it is the characters, their funny dialog and happenings that bring back to reading this series over again. I’m currently reading the third book in the series but will have to wait until book four is released (when?) so I can enjoy visiting with Lennox and his crew again.