A Three Dog Problem: The Queen investigates a murder at Buckingham Palace

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It houses a lot of the Queen’s (now the King’s) world-class art collection, but needs blast-proof curtains at the windows to catch the glass in case of bombs. This turns out to be anything but the simple task that it sounds but when the dead body of an unpopular elderly housekeeper is found beside the Palace swimming pool it slips down the priority list. The Queen is concerned about Brexit, while across the pond, the election of the President of the United States is taking a surprise turn. Prior to Portsmouth, Her Majesty had last seen the painting decades ago, hanging outside her bedroom door, and she has no idea how or when it left her possession. Then a body is found in the Palace swimming pool and suddenly there are two mysteries to unravel - and the Queen and Rozie have to battle to do so before a murderer strikes again.

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Er lijken weinig verbanden te zijn, maar na enkele nieuwe ontdekkingen hebben de dames toch weer een spoor te pakken. With the death of the housekeeper, the issue escalates and the Queen once again sets out to find the murderer. Although it is the second book in The Queen Investigates series, A Three Dog Problem can be read as a standalone - but with The Windsor Knot currently only 99p on Kindle it's also a worthy addition to your to be read pile.Not since another authorial Bennett wrote The Uncommon Reader has our reigning monarch been so charmingly and affectionately portrayed in print and S. External events such as the fallout from the Brexit referendum and the US Presidential election provide a subtle backdrop to the main storyline. In the wake of a referendum which has divided the nation, the last thing the Queen needs is any additional problems to worry about.

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If she is anything like her character in the book she is intelligent, quick thinking, compassionate, determined, and just lovely. Agatha herself is a comic delight: sexy, vampish and rude, but hiding more than a few vulnerabilities, and not hiding them very well. A Three Dog Problem is a good, old fashioned whodunnit, with twists, turns and the odd fishy red herring thrown in for good measure. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. In this story, we encounter several interesting players from the Royal Collection department, past and present.Something is going on in Buckingham Palace, and Her Majesty is determined to get to the bottom of it. In the midst of Brexit, the Queen notices her favorite painting missing, the Buckingham Palace is in dire need of renovation and a staff member is found dead by the pool.

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Now a massive project is underway to make it more user-friendly and safer to live and work in, and the background to this project forms a key part of the plot for the book. The current case is set in November 2016 with a few references to the then current American election being made. This wasn’t helped by the fact that there are several threads to the mystery (a missing painting, a suspected murder, poison pen letters targeted at multiple people and the long-standing problem of Palace items being spirited away on the sly), making it difficult to do justice to any one of them.

Rozie voert het onderzoek uit, maakt zichzelf niet overal even populair en begint misschien ook gevaar te lopen, de Queen stuurt haar achter de schermen aan, voert discrete gesprekken en ziet mogelijke verbanden. Bennett does a great job bringing it all together, although it seems to meander a bit much at times. In the wake of a referendum which has divided the nation, the last thing the Queen needs is any more problems to worry about.

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The intricacies of Palace life, the Queen and her relationship with her dogs, particularly when pondering a situation is a Three Dog problem. On top of all that, the Queen has seen her personal painting of the royal yacht Britannia, given to her by the artist in 1963, in an exhibit of maritime art in Portsmouth.MC Beaton was one of the many pen names of the prolific Scottish author Marion Chesney, who died in 2019 having written 31 books about Agatha Raisin and 34 about Hamish Macbeth. She joined as the Queen’s assistant private secretary a few months previous, after a short career in the army and then at a private bank. He is also good at killing people all over Kent, and getting his unlikely quartet of detectives to work out why and how. However, when Rozie struggles to get anywhere, the Queen, 'the Boss', knows something is terribly wrong. It's a fast-paced plot which is liberally littered with red-herrings and a dash of palace conspiracy.