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Philomena Amesbury expatriate Countess of Dunbridge is bored Coney Island in the sweltering summer of 1908 offers no shortage of diversions for a young woman of means but sea bathing horse racing and even amusement parks cant hold a candle to uncovering dastardly plots and chasing villains Lady Dunbridge hadnt had a big challenge in months
Fate obliges when Phil is called upon to host a dinner party in honor of a visiting Austrian psychologist whose revolutionary theories may be of interest to the War Department not to mention various foreign powers and who may have already survived one attempt on his life The guest list includes a wealthy industrialist various rival scientists and academics a party hypnotist a flamboyant partycrasher and a damaged beauty whose cloudy psyche is lost in a world of its own Before the night is out one of the guests is dead with a bullet between the eyes and Phil finds herself with another mystery on her hands even if its unclear who exactly the intended victim was meant to be
Worse yet the polices prime suspect is a mystery man who Phil happens to be rather intimately acquainted with Now its up to Lady Dunbridge with the invaluable assistance of her intrepid butler and ladys maid to find the real culprit before the police nab the wrong one
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