Gerald Samper is Not a Lucky Man. Ghost Writer of Terrible Celebrity Memoirs and Lethally Bad Cook, He Now Watches As His Beloved House Falls Off a Hill in Tuscany. but He and His Guests Have Been Saved From Certain Death by an Apparition - in the Form of a Certain Deceased English Princess With Great Legs. Or, at Least, That's How the Money-Spinning Rumor Has It...And so Begins a Farcical Comedy of Eccentric Diana Pilgrims, Dead Dinner Guests, Bad Opera and Gerry's Specialty Field-Mouse Vol-Au-Vents. Every Bit As Outrageous As Cooking With Fernet Branca, James Hamilton-Paterson's Latest Novel is Not for Anyone Who Takes Royalty (Or, Indeed, Anything Else) Too Seriously.