The Music Hall Murder: Ruby Redlick Mystery (Demimondaine Detective Agency)

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London, 1909

Ruby Redlick is a young woman with a passion for reading, who yearns to break free of her constrained life in Upper Norwood and go on the stage. She dreams of playing dramatic characters like her idol Sarah Bernhardt. But the West End is packed with lords, predators and courtesans and Ruby almost comes a cropper. A new friend comes to the rescue and introduces her to the music hall as a Gaiety Girl.

Swept up into the bright lights of 1900s Edwardian London, she’s barely navigated the Stage Door Johnnies when an Indian Maharajah’s fabulous jewels are stolen and a murder occurs. The police, who seem more interested in rooting out foreign spies, close the case abruptly. Ruby is compelled to follow another idol, Mr Sherlock Holmes, in some amateur sleuthing. With the help of Soho’s Italian anarchists, a foreign royal and a couple of militant suffragettes, she investigates the crime.

Ruby unravels the complicated web of deceit but when she comes a little too close to exposing the criminal’s deadly secret, her own life is put in peril. Will she find a way to bring about justice before it’s too late?