Dark Clouds over Nuala and A Suspicous Death--Suicide??

Dark Clouds Over Nuala by Harriet Steel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

British rule in Ceylon and Inspector de Silva must answer to the British superior officer. When a Romanian count appears in Nuala and a member of his hunting party seems to have committed suicide, it is a sticky wicket for de Silva. One mustn't ruffle the feathers of this noble with whom the British wish to remain allied and,yet, questions arise as to whether it was suicide. The situation is further complicated by the missing corpse--is the woman even dead?

Fortunately, the Inspector has two young assistants to aid in the investigation--if their personal lives allow them to be totally involved with their work. On the other hand, there is Jane, de Silva's English wife always there to correct his misquoted British idioms and to bring home the British gossip so essential to any investigation involving getting around the ever present threat of furor on the part of the superior British superior. LOL

Fun books with interesting cases that always seem to be meandering but eventually reach a satisfying resolution.

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