A Death, a Will, and a Way

"Poison" is one of the last words Nedda Courtland's employer says to her.

Private secretary to a wealthy financier, Nedda has maintained a very British poise as she traveled the world. The New Orleans of 1925 brings it own unique flavor to her experiences. Yet nothing prepares her for Hyatt Ingram's claim of murder in the hours before his death.

With no evidence as proof, she can only fulfill Mr. Ingram's last wishes. Holding his absent son's voting proxy and a new will, Nedda expects the murderer to emerge in the chaos she will create as executrix.

She never expects another murder.

"Spanish Moss" is the first of three novelettes in this tie-in series to M.A. Lee's Sailing Into Mystery stories and Into Death novels featuring the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant. Nedda Courtland enters 1925 America with these stories as she is Courting Trouble.

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M.A. Lee is the multi-published author of over 15 historical mystery novels, two novellas, and several short stories. Her Into Death series, including Digging into Death, Christmas with Death, and Portrait with Death, features Isabella Newcombe. The 12-book Hearts in Hazard series combines mystery and suspense with a Regency England setting.

With Edie Roones, she penned 10 short stories in the Wild Sherwood series, featuring characters in the Robin Hood legends and dangerous faeries of British mythology.