In Death on the Agenda, he’s on an international crime conference trip to Switzerland–and you will not be surprised to learn that someone ends up dead. The next novel ( The Sunken Sailor ) takes him boating with friends (where murder again finds him). If this is the sort of thing you enjoy, you are really in luck, since Patricia Moyes wrote 18 additional novels featuring Henry Tibbett. Plus it’s fun to vicariously travel to a remote mountain village and meet the locals and the vacationers from various European countries. There’s a convoluted plot, plenty of people with secrets to hide, post-WWII tensions, well-developed characters (including Henry’s rather appealing wife, Emmy), an extremely unlikable victim, and generally all the necessary ingredients for an old-fashioned cozy mystery. Dead Men Don’t Ski, the first of Patricia Moyes’ series of novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Henry Tibbett, is something similar to an Agatha Christie-style puzzle mystery Henry and his wife (and assorted other visitors) are on a ski trip in the Italian Dolomites when murder interrupts their holiday. One of the things I like about reading mystery novels is the slice of life–the specifics of the time and place the story is set in.
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