Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder

Even in a small village like Taviscombe, one is bound to have an unpleasant neighbor. For Sheila Malory, the local poet, biographer, and busybody Adrian Palgrove fits the bill. So Sheila is none too pleased to encounter Adrian at a literary lunch, where he smugly relates the news that he's been appointed executor of a well-known author's estate, whose papers, Adrian confides, contain explosive revelations.
Back home at Taviscombe, Sheila unhappily sees still more of Adrian during preparations for the local festival, as Adrian's overbearing manner makes enemies of nearly everyone on the festival planning committee.
But who could have guessed that the first event of the festival was to be Adrian's last? Who disliked the man enough to kill him - and kill again? When the list of likely candidates is nearly as long as the local telephone directory, Sheila Malory has her work cut out for her in Hazel Holt's most ingenious, entertaining new mystery.