![]() ![]() ![]() Read more: The 21 best summer reads – thrillers, short stories and political must-reads What follows is a frothy soufflé of a tale in which Agatha Christie and Nancy Mitford are given an Eighties spin as Ursula and Nancy sneak around college trying to uncover the truth about the murder of the titular party girl while still managing to attend a fabulous number of dinner dates with beautiful, floppy-haired men.Īs a crime novel it’s perfectly serviceable – and plays absolutely fair to the rules of the golden age – but its real pleasures lie not in uncovering whodunit but in joining the author as she turns an acerbic eye on the gilded sybarites of her youth. ![]() Plum Sykes at the launch of ‘Party Girls Die in Pearls’ at Burberry in Houston, Texas. Instead she finds herself caught up in a murder investigation alongside new best friend Nancy Feingold, the irrepressible heir to a New Jersey gardening tools empire whose main ambition is to minor in ‘Earl-catching’. ![]()
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