Alternate Shadows presents
A Pyramid Puzzles Murder Mystery

The Jhansi Jewels Affair

14th November 2009
Cleave Warne Hall, Rochester

One pleasant afternoon in the summer of 1858, the gentle tea-room of the Mayfair Hotel, London is the last place one would expect a murder.

Major James Hornby, who has recently returned from Northern India where he commanded a regiment fighting off the ‘Indian rebellion’ of May 1857, is having tea with his prospective parents-in-law, Lord and Lady Snitchworth, and their daughter, his fiancé, Emily.

Whilst exchanging pleasantries with another table, where acquaintances Lawrence Kingly and Caprius Smith from the recently dissolved East India Company are sipping Darjeeling tea, Mahil, manservant to Major James Hornby, interrupts the afternoon pleasantries with a telegram that changes everything…

In a mystery full of jealousy, intrigue and fabulously expensive jewels at the heart of the matter, it will be a matter for the ‘little grey cells’ to catch a cold-blooded murderer.

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