Chertsey Park: A 1920s historical mystery of drama and suspense by G J BellamyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
News about Burgoyne's Employment Bureau has spread fast and the team are asked to provide additional servants for Lady Stokely's dinner party in honour of her son. following on from that, the team are asked to visit Lord Stokely's home, Chertsey Park, to assist the skeleton staff in catering for four days of meetings and entertainment for Stokely and his cohort. It's an ideal opportunity for the gang to dig up some dirt about the dastardly Stokely and the police are on standby nearby.
Meanwhile Stokely's plotting is coming to a head, he's inciting riots, strikes, and financing acts of terrorism.
These books are very much in the same theme as Buchan's The 39 Steps, by which I mean that there are wealthy men plotting the downfall of the government and the rise of a new power. Of course the 1920s were a hotbed of political extremism, the fascists were rising to power in Italy, many former soldiers embraced the communist ideals of equality and a classless society. After WW1 people wanted to change the world for the better and many young people were sick of old men leading them into catastrophic wars for their own aggrandisement.
Having said that, this was only okay. It felt like Sophie created all the mayhem because she couldn't/wouldn't act like a servant and ended up putting everyone in danger. Also, towards the end I felt like Sophie got captured about six times in one evening. There were at least three different layers of henchmen, and it stopped making sense a little bit.
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