TY - BOOK AU - Kingsbury,Kate TI - Mulled murder T2 - Pennyfoot hotel mysteries SN - 9780425262924 U1 - Fic PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Berkley Prime Crime KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help. Instead of visions of sugar plums, she's calling the plumber to deal with flooded bathrooms. Then there's the surly new janitor, who acts like he got coal in his stocking. But as Cecily scrambles to hire and train new staff in time for the holidays, one of her guests is beyond help. Gerald Evans is found stabbed to death on the beach, and Cecily soon discovers he was a private investigator from London looking into dark doings involving the Pennyfoot. Who among the staff or guests was being pursued, and what secret drove that person to cold-blooded murder? ER -