The Case of the Dotty Dowager by Cathy Ace is an amusing
British cozy mystery. This is the first in a planned series featuring the WISE
Women Detective Agency. These female detectives are WISE because they are from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England respectively. Henry Twyst, the eighteenth duke of Chellingworth, discreetly
employs the detective agency to discover whether his mother, the Dowager
Duchess, actually saw a corpse in her dining room. Has the Duchess gone senile? One
of the WISE detectives is a family friend, the Honorable Christine Wilson-Smythe, who just so happens to be the only daughter of a Viscount and Viscountess. Christine and her friends
discover what really happened that night in the Duchess’ dining room. This book
is a clever beginning to a fun and entertaining genre series.
