MURDER ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA takes Kitty and her husband, Captain Matthew Bryant out of their usual stamping ground of 1930s Devon and plunges them into Nice. Set in 1936, the world is changing rapidly. King George V died earlier that year, Italy has invaded Ethiopia, Germany is on the move. There is civil unrest in Spain and France has just had a general election. Kitty and Matt are dispatched to Nice to meet an agent working for the British Government. They are to collect some vital documents and return home whilst under the guise of enjoying a restful holiday in the historic French City, not too far from the Italian border. The agent is found dead, and the papers are missing sending Kitty and Matt on a mission to recover the documents, find a murderer and return to London. The mystery takes them all around Nice and many of the lovely places described in the book can be visited today. They stay at one of the oldest hotels in Nice, the Hotel Negresco, you can go for tea or dinner and examine the fabulous works of art inside the hotel. Another place featured in the book is the Russian…