Gentlemen Formerly Dressed
January 2014
Sulari Gentill / Pantera Press
The fifth book in Sulari Gentill’s 1930s crime fiction series begins days after artist Rowland Sinclair and his Bohemian companions flee Nazi Germany, where they are wanted for murder. Biding their time in France, as they anxiously await their flight to London, Rowland serendipitously crosses paths with his Australian brother Wilfred, sent as a delegate to the London Economic Conference. Desperate to find an outlet for his stories of Nazi camps, book burning, and brutal oppression of dissent, Rowland convinces Wilfred to arrange a meeting with Lord Pierrepont, a well-connected Tory, whose first wife has also been the victim of German atrocities. When Pierrepont doesn’t arrive, they visit his hotel suite to find him murdered, and in a frilled nightdress.
An excursion to the Madame Tussaud’s waxworks museum with sculptress Edna Higgins leads to a second coincidence, and the discovery of an unfinished sculpture of Pierrepont. Discovering work had been stopped due to Lady Pierrepont’s lack of payment, Rowland, claiming to be an acquaintance, offers to return the sculpted head as a mark of the museum’s condolences, and a first step toward uncovering the person responsible for the bizarre murder. Little does he know, a mysterious world of “British aristocracy, Fascist Blackshirts, illicit love, scandal and spies” awaits. An exciting read that will enthral existing fans and new readers alike.
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