Neil Flambe Honey

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Neil Flambe, a world class chef and also a sleuth, finds himself serving a meal to Lord Lane, a royal from England. Lord Lane gives him jars of honey to make his meal from. Neil finds a note in the jar of honey. Desperate to get away from crime solving, Neil is reluctant to solve another mystery. The Queen of England thinks otherwise and gives him a royal warrant to go to England and solve this mystery. Upon arriving in England, Larry (Neil’s cousin) and Neil approach a woman named “Rose”, Neil’s friend’s friend. Rose is in the perfume industry but also studies Shakespeare. The paper in the honey Neil recently found was supposedly a riddle written to Shakespeare and so Rose was the perfect person to get help from.

Neil, Rose, and Larry

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