Murder at the White Palace av Allison Montclair

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<p><b>In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder.<br></b><br>In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture¿The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous¿and never discussed¿past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a genteel war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family. Looking to throw a New Year¿s Eve soiree for their clients, Sparks and Bainbridge scout an empty building¿only to find a body contained in the walls. What they initially assume is a victim of the recent Blitz is uncovered instead to be a murder victim¿stabbed several times.<br><br>To make matters worse, the owner of the building is Sparks¿ beau, Archie Spelling, who has ties to a variety of enterprises on the right and wrong sides of the law, and the main investigator for the