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Language
English
Description
After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancé's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
Author
Series
A Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 29
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
With assistance from housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries, Inspector Witherspoon investigates the bloody murder of an art collector and tries to find the sword-wielding culprit before Christmas.
Author
Series
A rip through time volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Minotaur Books edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""A great read." -Charlaine Harris In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland-in an unfamiliar body-with a killer on the loose. May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three of the most influential investors in England--known as the Merry Gentlemen--to be part of his latest enterprise. Despite his mysterious past, Edison is now welcomed in the highest circles and moves with ease among the rich and powerful. Yet a few days before...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her sweetheart Thom. But Thom dies of ship fever, leaving Bridey alone and pregnant in a strange new world. The Latecomers spans a century of American life and reminds us that we can never truly leave the past behind"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 p.
Language
English
Description
When her sister Julia's new--and much older--husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva, must discover the killer before the Renshaws' social standing is irreparably damaged by a murder charge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 crime solver's work is never done.
Sir George Braxton was found lying face down in a frozen fountain with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Jeffries must help Inspector Witherspoon crack a new case and catch a killer in this next installment of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Successful businessman Jeremy Marks wasn't highly regarded by any of the members of the West London Archery Club. Most of them considered him a buffoon and a bore. But everyone was stunned when the fellow was murdered during a lull in the club's annual archery competition. He'd been shot with arrows from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a wealthy widow is murdered, Mrs. Jeffries investigates what happens when money can't buy your life in this all- new installment in the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Margaret Starling wasn't the sort of woman anyone expected to be murdered. She was on the advisory board of the London Angel Alms Society, an active member of St. Peter's Church and, best of all, she was always willing to lend a hand to a friend or neighbor in need of advice....
10) Class: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime ed.
Physical Desc
247 p.
Language
English
Description
With London's streets deserted, a young flower girl is murdered. But why was she out so late on the foggiest night of the year? Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard has nowhere to even begin looking for a suspect. However, Mrs. Jeffries, his housekeeper, is even more accomplished at detection than she is at household management. A policeman's widow herself, her quick wits allow her to nudge the inspector in the right direction to solve the mystery....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
236 p.
Language
English
Description
Housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries must use all her extraordinary sleuthing skills when she is forced to take over an investigation when her employer, Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon, becomes a prime suspect in the murder of Peter Hornsley.