title: Coattails and Cocktails: Murder Straight Up with a Twist
author:  Rumer Haven 
description: <i>"</i>We love murder mysteries where past missteps and misdemeanors aretrotted out to bring a deeper dimension to their characters - something<i>Coattails and Cocktails</i>demonstrates with particular aplomb."<b><i>Red City Review</i></b><i><br /><br />"</i>Murder mystery fans will delight in an atmosphere replete with satisfying twists and cocktail references which creates an original concoction to delight fans of food, drink, frenzy and fear."<b>D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, <i>Midwest Book Review </i></b><b><i> </i></b>
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  A DEATH AT
  
  
  THE BEER SOUP CLUB
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Tale of Gastronomical Bitterness and Mayhem,
  
  
  From the Papers of Colonel Sir Francis FitzMaurice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Montclaire Weekend Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E. A. Allen
  
  
  
  
  
  2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  © Copyright 2019, by E. A. Allen
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced in any form or by
  any means without permission in writing from the author, except for brief
  quotation in an acknowledged review.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
  
  
  William Shakespeare
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Death at the Beer Soup Club
  
  
  
  
  
  London, December 1901
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One: Murder By Soup?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “I regret. Cannot come. A tragedy.”
  
  
  So read the terse note handed to Montclaire, as we lolled about the hearth in
  the members’ bar at the Carlton Club that frigid December evening. In London
  to pass the Christmas Seaso