Working title: A Pretender’s Murder

March 1925, and Eric Peterkin is now club secretary at the Britannia -- shuffled away to a lonely back office with more duties and responsibilities than he bargained for. And then Colonel Hadrian Russell, acting president since the events of A Gentleman’s Murder, is thrown from the window of the club lounge in an undeniable act of murder, and there can be no going back to the way things were.

The Colonel had four dead sons honoured on the club’s roster of the fallen, and four widowed daughters-in-law to whom the club secretary must pay respects on behalf of the club. Despite his initial reluctance to get involved, Eric soon finds that the world keeps turning though the men are away at war, and the intrigues born then are no less deadly for having occurred behind their backs.