July 1915 and the Mayfair 100 team have started to get bored with no new case for several months to investigate. Then the team are called in when Lady Adelene Treborne is found hanged in her apartment. They find to their dismay that she had many enemies with motives wanting her dead.
Can the team with their new recruits unravel the truth to find the guilty party.
Although the story can easily be read as a standalone I would recommend reading the first in the series as I did find it an delightful read.
This is another entertaining well-written story and an easy read. The main characters as expected are a likeable bunch.
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July 1915 and the Mayfair 100 team have started to get bored with no new case for several months to investigate. Then the team are called in when Lady Adelene Treborne is found hanged in her apartment. They find to their dismay that she had any enemies with motives wanting her dead.
Can the team with their new recruits unravel the truth to find the guilty party.
Although the story can easily be read as a standalone I would recommend reading the first in the series as I did find it an delightful read.
This is another entertaining well-written story and an easy read. The main characters as expected are a likeable bunch.
A NetGalley Book
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Scotland Yard Inspector Breech is assigned to investigate the death of gossip columnist Lady Adeline Treborne. She also the daughter of The Duchess of Penhere, a wealthy socialite. The death looks like a suicide but the Duchess insists her daughter would never kill herself. The autopsy result is murder. The team investigates the victim's lifestyle. Lady Adeline acquired numerous enemies as she blackmailed her way into a story. The initial crime of murder lead into other crimes. So the team had to solve the lesser crimes to solve the bigger crime.

I received this book from NetGalley for free in exchange for an honest review. This was an interesting mystery. The time period after World War ! the setting of the book represented a change in society. It set in motion for women to work outside the home. Although Inspector Beech is male, his team of investigators is female. Forensic science to solve criminal investigation was also introduced. This is the second book in the Mayfair 100 series. Ms. Britteny did an excellent job of describing the city of Chelsea. She also introduced social norms as mixed marriages baby farming and the beginning of soldiers losing limbs and needing medical attention. and the class system in England.. ( )

A Death in Chelsea by Lynn Brittney is the second in the Mayfair 100 mystery series but it reads well on its own. Mayfair 100 is the telephone number in Chelsea, UK of a group of female amateur detectives with skillsets that are compatible with professional police detectives, as they attempt to solve serious crimes together. A new case is presented when the body of Lady Adeline Treborne is found and the circumstances indicate that it was suicide but the ladies soon prove that all is not as it seems. Lady Treborne had made many enemies during her short life. Their investigation takes them to all levels of English society and, during their search, more crimes are committed. I found it somewhat disconcerting that the author wrote of events and methods that are too modern for the era of WW 1. Vocabulary was sometimes too modern as well. I thought that there were too many secondary characters involved in the mystery, making it confusing at times to keep up with the story. It was an interesting book and light entertainment, which is not a bad thing in these troubling times. Thank you to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. ( )

A Death In Chelsea is the second book in The Mayfair 100 Mystery series.

Inspector Beech’s secret team is anxiously looking forward to their next assignment and hoping that they will be helping someone from the working class. But that will not will be the case. The Duchess of Penhere has sought out the Chief Superintendent to ask him to investigate the death of her daughter, Lady Adeline Treborne. Adeline had been found hanging from a ceiling in her flat and the Duchess doesn’t feel that it was suicide even though it looks that way.

What with the Duchess and her status, the Chief Superintendent calls on Inspector Beech and his team.
The team, who call themselves The Mayfair 100, the phone number at the house they meet at. The team consists of a doctor, Caroline, a lawyer, Victoria, and two policemen, Arthur and Billy, and the newest member, Mabel, a pharmacist.

Beech meets with his team and once they have their assignments Victoria, Mabel and Sissy, Billy’s aunt, set off for Lady Adeline’s flat to begin their investigation. Victoria. They are quickly able to determine that she didn’t commit suicide. While searching her flat they found her journal and it appears that not only does she write a “gossip” column for a newspaper, but she has also been blackmailing fellow members of society. In the journal, they find a page with initials and what appears to be monetary amounts. Victoria can suggest some possible names of the people who are being blackmailed. But, some pages are missing from the journal and they hope that with what they have, they will be led to the killer. Their searches will take them as high as Parliament.

I really enjoy this series a lot. The stories are well written and plotted. I also liked how the author weaved in new methods of police investigation procedures. Also, the book contains a cast of interesting and enjoyable characters. I particularly enjoyed Aunt Sissy. Sissy was in the first book but has a bigger role in this book. She was instrumental in proving that Lady Adeline wasn’t hanged. I would love to see her added as a member of Beech’s team.

I will be watching for the next book in this wonderful historical series. ( )