All that glitters is not gold...

The sleepy English village of Ambercombe is scandalised when an eccentric housekeeper accuses the locals of theft.

Ethel Ridd, housekeeper to the recently deceased vicar of Ambercombe, claims a priceless medieval chalice has gone missing from the church plate.

But before investigations can be carried out, Ethel is found murdered in the vicarage...

There seems to be no record of the chalice, but what other motivation could there be for the murder?

With the local constabulary at a dead end, Scotland Yard's Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye are called upon to investigate.

Does the Medieval chalice exist? Can Pollard & Toye find it?

Or was there another reason for the murder in the vicarage...?

Unhappy Returns is the ninth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

'Lemarchand brings a rare sense of country life and settings to her masterful crime novel' - ALA Booklist

'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy

THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder