Murder, British style - His Lordship investigates Welcome to good old England, where the tea is strong, the murders charming, and the coincidences suspiciously precise. The eccentric private detective Reginald Lord Merridew – a passionate lover of sumptuous meals – would have long since died of boredom were he not occasionally called upon to solve particularly tricky criminal cases. His friend Nigel Bates accompanies him with wide-eyed wonder and dry humor. In the Nifty Fifties, the Swinging Sixties, and the Super Seventies, they travel across the country, solving cases as quintessentially British as cucumber sandwiches at high tea. Among other things, they investigate a missing Paganini violin, solve the gruesome murder of the royal bagpiper, search for the loot of the English train robbers, and, in the blink of an eye, unravel the mystery of perhaps the most famous vampire in world history. With a twinkle in his eye, Ralf Kramp pays homage to the classics of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction in these crime stories. His tales are peppered with affectionate allusions to film, literature, and pop culture, populated by colorful characters, and permeated by a criminal logic that is always a little more astonishing than one would dare to imagine. biography Ralf Kramp, born in 1963, lives in Mechernich. In 1996 he published his first crime novel, "Tief unterm Laub" (Deep Under the Leaves), for which he was awarded the "Eifel Literature Promotion Prize" in the same year.