Murder Flies the Coop

England, expats, friendship, cosy-mystery, murder, murder-investigation, private-investigators, 1920s, witty, situational-humor, law-enforcement, mining, pigeons, gardening, small-town, historical-novel, historical-places-events, historical-research, history-and-culture, class-consciousness, theft, sabotage, labor-agitators***** Beryl is an adventurous American adventurer who finds herself bored with life and wealthy from alimony payments from several ex-husbands, moves in with her old school friend Edwina in a village in Kent. First, the vicar retains them to find a missing man who was accountant at the local (awful) mine as well as treasurer of the local pigeon racing group. While checking out the pigeons Beryl looks under the coop and there is the body of the missing man. Next, the wife of owner of the mine wants them to look into the murder, but mostly wants them to find her jewelry on the man's body which he was holding in anticipation of their escape from her odious husband. And on they go, learning more than they knew about the conditions of mine workers and about others in the village as well. Loved it (and them)! Barbara Rosenblat gives her usual delightful interpretive narration!