The Winhaven Shooting Affair

By: Richard Fleischman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A country house shooting party is meant to polish reputations and forge alliances; instead, it leaves one guest bleeding in the frosty grass and Winhaven’s gun in the wrong pair of hands.

Julian Vane, twentieth Earl of Winhaven, wanted nothing more than to escape town for mud, birds, and bad brandy, but when ballistics, old grudges, and suspiciously convenient “accidents” start to line up, it becomes clear that someone is using the weekend’s sport as cover for a quieter kind of hunt.

While the house whispers about duels and scandals, Thorne traces the truth through powder burns on cuffs, rearranged place cards, and a cartridge box that has been opened and repacked by the wrong fingers. To prevent a murder from being written off as a misfire—or as Winhaven’s folly—valet and earl must navigate drawing‑room politics as carefully as the shooting line before the next shot finds its real target.

In The Valet’s Veto Mysteries, an exacting valet and his disastrously well-meaning earl navigate Regency London’s murders and scandals armed with starch, sharp observation, and an unforgiving eye for bad tailoring.

Polishing silver. Preserving reputations. Solving the Ton’s deadliest crimes.