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Meet the inspector and Mrs. Jeffries—in a delightful mystery series set in Victorian England—and featuring the most charming characters ever to crack a case.
STICKY FINGERS, HELPING HANDS...
Minerva Kenny is a dear woman, but her tendency to "borrow" things without asking has finally caught up with her. William Barrett has learned Minerva's shameful secret, and he's holding it over her head.
Mrs. Jeffries and the staff have hatched...
STICKY FINGERS, HELPING HANDS...
Minerva Kenny is a dear woman, but her tendency to "borrow" things without asking has finally caught up with her. William Barrett has learned Minerva's shameful secret, and he's holding it over her head.
Mrs. Jeffries and the staff have hatched...
22) The harvest man
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For Inspector Walter Day, it has been a difficult time. His wife has given birth to twins, his hostile in-laws have come to stay, and a leg injury has kept him at his desk. But when the Harvest Man begins killing, carving people's faces off their skulls, the Yard knows they need Day in the field. Not so Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith. Rash actions have cost him his job, but that doesn't stop his obsessive hunt for the Ripper. When the mutilated bodies...
23) The black ascot
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An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
24) No way out
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Karen Vail novels volume 5
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When a powerful firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI Profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a 440-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England's past -- with content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs.
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Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 15
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"Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief, her life is, in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that someone is trying to kill her? That's what Mrs. Jeffries and her staff have to find out."--Back cover.
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A mystery featuring the Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries—"the Miss Marple of Victorian mystery." (Paperback Forum)
It was a most peculiar murder. A man's body was found in the canal—but the evidence showed that he had drowned in a bathtub. A theatre critic known for his savage reviews, the victim had had a full cast of enemies. While Inspector Witherspoon scoured the theatre, his housekeeper and unofficial sleuthing partner Mrs. Jeffries...
It was a most peculiar murder. A man's body was found in the canal—but the evidence showed that he had drowned in a bathtub. A theatre critic known for his savage reviews, the victim had had a full cast of enemies. While Inspector Witherspoon scoured the theatre, his housekeeper and unofficial sleuthing partner Mrs. Jeffries...
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Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 12
Victorian mysteries volume 12
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 12
Victorian mysteries volume 12
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 12
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A missing muse is the catalyst for a baffling case for Inspector Witherspoon and Mrs. Jeffries in the twelfth novel in the long-running Victorian mystery series.
An artist’s model never shows up at Neville Grant's house—or so he claims. But when one of Mr. Grant’s house guests suddenly dies, the Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries have to work double time to find both the missing model and the killer!
“One...
An artist’s model never shows up at Neville Grant's house—or so he claims. But when one of Mr. Grant’s house guests suddenly dies, the Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries have to work double time to find both the missing model and the killer!
“One...
28) Crooked house
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In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...
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A festive Jubilee Ball in honor of Queen Victoria turns into a fatal affair for Hannah Greenwood. Inspector Witherspoon was a guest at the ball so the job of finding the murderer falls to him. Fortunately, Mrs. Jeffries is there to help him read between the lines.. and identify the guilty party behind this deadly plot..
30) The raven's eye
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DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors, having apparently succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning due to improper ventilation of the narrowboat's heating system. But while the cause of death seems apparent and there's no reason for Kolla to think otherwise, something...
31) Murder offstage
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Posie Parker mystery volume 1
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When Posie Parker's childhood friend is robbed of the priceless Maharajah diamond and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name. Aided by her seriously gorgeous assistant Len, Posie soon realizes things are not quite as they seem, and the darkly-glamorous world of London's theatre and glittering nightclubs prove far more dangerous than she ever could have imagined.
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She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon . . . and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes-but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries's polished detection skills are up to the task . . . proving that behind every great man there's a woman-and that a crimesolver's work is never done.
Sir Edmund Leggett is flattered to be stalked by a young lady-who...
33) The gatekeeper
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Inspector Ian Rutledge novels volume 20
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On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.Hours after his sister’s wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped...
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Beautiful and new in town, Ellen Langston-Jones doesn't have any enemies. So when she's found dead in the communal gardens, Inspector Witherspoon quickly narrows the field of suspects down to one: Lucius Montague, who was seen threatening Mrs. Langston-Jones. The Inspector and all of London are positive that he's the killer, but Mrs. Jeffries has doubts. Now, she must turn the tide of the investigation...
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Posie Parker mystery volume 2
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Private Detective Posie Parker is dreaming of a lazy summer ... But following the success of the Maharajah diamond case, she finds herself more in demand than ever. Asked to locate a world-famous explorer who has gone missing after a string of catastrophic events, Posie finds herself in murky waters yet again: an aristocratic family torn apart by hatred, a bizarre murder at an English country house, and a cryptic clue left behind by the explorer which...
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Posie Parker mystery volume 3
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"This is a classic action-packed country house mystery, which sees Posie accompany the maverick Scotland Yard Detective, Inspector Richard Lovelace, to a glittering New Year Eve party at an English stately home, packed full of glamorous guests. Posie and the Inspector are working deep undercover on a dangerous mission ... but trouble is brewing from many quarters. Oh, and to make matters even simpler, there a murderer on the loose ... With a blizzard...
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Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they'd ease her way by assigning her to assist DS Isabella Munoz, which was a fate only slightly worse than death. ...[T]he first assignment out of the box was a possible suicide at the housing projects, something that happened with such regularity that it was a wonder the responding officer had even thought it worthy of a detective's notice. ..."
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"When Posie clears a space in her diary to visit the University town of Cambridge on a personal mission, she finds more than she bargained for, as the past seems to confront her at every turn. She finds herself unwittingly taking on a dangerous new case in which she must try and find out what happened to Dr. William Winter, a brilliant Cambridge doctor who disappeared five years earlier in the chaos of war. But in doing so, Posie is forced to confront...
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Jonathan Roper volume 1
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Jonathan Roper is a new type of detective; young, gifted and autistic. He's a wonderful analyst but not so good with people. Many of his Scotland Yard colleagues were delighted after he was suspended for misconduct. Now those people are going to be disappointed because he's being brought back by the bosses of his elite unit. Not that Roper is concerned with office politics. He's got a case to solve and that's all that matters. In this compelling thriller...