Bridget Chetwynd

Private detective Petunia Best (ex-WAAF) and her partner, Max Frend (ex-British Intelligence) are hired to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and her priceless jewels by the insurance company who'd insured them. Nosing around the small seaside village of Chipley, where she'd lived with her mother, the two soon discover that Red Carter, stunningly beautiful, vivacious, captivating, had won hearts and made enemies with equal abandon. Now they have to figure out what happened to her -- and by whose hand. Time for another of Petunia's suspect charts!