![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She turns out to be a supporter of czarist rule who recently escaped the carnage of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. To confound matters further, he later finds out that his uncle, Lord Melrose, has recently asked the very same Sophia to marry him. Lennox has no idea who the man might be nor how he ended up delivered, like a parcel, to his property, but then he finds a sheet of paper hidden in the corpse’s coat with a stranger’s name written on it: Countess Sophia Androvich Zerevki Polyakov. Heathcliff Lennox, a veteran of the First World War, receives distressing news from his butler, Greggs: There’s a dead man lying on his doorstep-truly an uncommon circumstance in sleepy rural England-which kicks off Menuhin’s often humorous story. An English gentleman finds his inheritance threatened as he’s accused of murder in this mannered comedic mystery. ![]()
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