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Aubrey Hamilton Reviews: The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer by Cathy Ace
The
Case of the Missing Morris Dancer by Cathy Ace
(Severn House, 2016) is the second in the series featuring the WISE Enquiries
Agency, which operates from a ducal estate near Anwen-by-Wye, Wales. This
agency comprises women investigators from Wales, Ireland, Scotland,
and England, hence the acronym in its name.
The Duke of Chellingworth is getting married and
everyone in the community has strong ideas about the activities that must
surround that event to make it absolutely right. He is juggling the demands
more or less successfully when the always-reliable musician and hereditary
leader of the village Morris dancers disappears a week before the wedding along
with all of the necessary paraphernalia. The disruption to the regional
traditions and local sensibilities should the event proceed without the Morris
dancers is too horrible to contemplate, and the ladies of the WISE agency are
called in by the Dowager Duchess after the police find no evidence indicating
foul play has occurred. When the
investigators learn the missing dancer planned a long vacation after the
wedding that his friends didn’t know about and his van turns up in an
out-of-the way lay-by, everyone is alarmed.
Each of the four investigators has a unique
skill set that the group recognizes and deploys to advantage, making the overall
agency greater than the sum of its parts. The folklore of Morris dancing and
its origins are smoothly worked into the story line, which has a couple of
surprises near the end.
A Welsh-English dictionary would have been
helpful in reading this book, as the villagers often speak in their native
Welsh and no translation is offered, although usually I could guess meaning
from the context. There are two more books in this series after this one; the
well-delineated characters and the picturesque setting lend themselves to a
nice long run for the ladies of WISE.
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Hardcover: 224 pages
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Publisher: Severn House
Publishers; First World Publication edition (February 1, 2016)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 0727885545
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ISBN-13: 978-0727885548
Aubrey Hamilton ©2018
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal IT
projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
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