<p><em>Growing bored in the autumn of her years, Londoner Annabel Churchill decides to buy a private detective agency in a Dorset village. The purchase brings with it the eccentric Doris Pemberley and it&rsquo;s not long before the two old ladies have their first case.</em><br />
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No one has made more enemies than the local busybody, Mrs Furzgate, but when she suffers a fatal fall at Piddleton Hotel everyone assumes it was an accident. The detective duo, Churchill and Pemberley, suspect murder and are soon on the case. But is it possible they&rsquo;ll upset even more people than Mrs Furzgate managed to?<br />
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With the subtlety of two bulls in a china shop, Churchill and Pemberley employ unconventional sleuthing techniques.&nbsp;<em>What appears to be a shortcoming is actually a skill: being consistently underestimated enables them to spring a clever surprise.</em></p>