Murdering the Sycamores - A E Chambers

Prolific novelist, Chauncery Pope, is found dead one morning in his London apartment by his researcher, Frieda Keeler. At his funeral Frieda, and her good friend Charlotte, are introduced to the Sycamores, a motley group of people who are avid fans of the author. Dame Julia Cowper, the chairwoman of the Sycamore Club, invites Frieda and Charlotte, to join her and the club members for the Easter weekend at Gaskall Hall, Cowper's stately home in Woodbridge, where she plans to commemorate Pope by constructing a museum in his honour. However, within hours of arriving at Gaskall Hall, one of the club members is murdered and Frieda's life is put in imminent danger. This is the third murder mystery novel in the TREE SERIES, set in England in the 1950s, featuring Frieda Keeler and Charlotte Leicester, but stands alone as a murder mystery.