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Business has been slow, but when Tillie LaSalle turns up at the Right Sort Bureau, Iris and Gwendolyn feel they can find her a match. Although they think there is a little shady about her, but not enough to disqualify her from love. They proceed to match her to a quiet accountant named Dickie Trower.
Right after her visit to the Bureau, a man wearing a dustman's coverall appears and asks about Miss LaSalle. They remind him he needs an appointment to deal with the Bureau and he abruptly leaves. A week later Miss LaSalle is found stabbed to death in an alley and the murder weapon is found under Mr. Trower's bed.
Trower claims he never met Tillie and says he received a letter from The Right Sort of Man Marriage Bureau cancelling the date. Neither partner sent the letter, but that doesn't help Trower.
The police are convinced they have the killer, but Iris and Gwendolyn do not believe the mild-mannered Trower could be the killer. They set out tofind the real killer and encounter black marketeers, forged ration coupons and secrets they have kept from each other. Using the skills they learned during the war, the two find themselves in a world so difference from their own. Gwendolyn is the widow of the son of a peer and her mother-in-law rules with an iron hand. She would be mortified to hear that Gwendolyn is searching for a killer.
Iris, on the other hand, has had lots of experience in shadowy circles and uses her skills to not only clear Mr. Trower, but bring down the black market criminals.
A terrific start to a new series. I look forward to a second date with Iris and Gwendolyn and their matrimonial cases.
Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher.
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