02404cam a2200361 4500 1164049975 TxAuBib 20120608120000.0 111019s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062116505 hbk. 0062116509 hbk. (OCoLC)758392001 BTCTA eng BTCTA BDX AZZPT YDXCP CXP UPZ TnLvILS TxAuBib Jones, Sadie. The uninvited guests / Sadie Jones. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2012. 262 p. ; 24 cm. Edward Swift departs -- A dreadful accident -- Smelts and smithereens -- A most unpleasant game -- Abandon -- The resting place -- The starlight bath -- Edward Swift returns. Kirkus Review - Adult,031512. Publisher's Weekly, 031912, p. 62. Library Journal, 041512, p. 79. Booklist, 041512, p. 38. "One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor-and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking."--Dust jacket. 20120608. Parties England 20th century Fiction. Manors England 20th century Fiction. Accident victims Fiction. England Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Domestic fiction. Suspense fiction. TXKIP