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Murder Most Malicious

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A Question of Inheritance

Elizabeth Edmondson

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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Snobbery With Violence

Marion Chesney · 243 pages

Exposing a suitor's dishonorable intentions toward the daughter of a new client, Harry Cartwright is hired by a wealthy marquis to solve a house party murder, a case that is complicated by the host's desire to preserve discretion.

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · 190 pages

Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Emily's two stepsons, John

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Murder at Sedgwick Court

Margaret Addison · 264 pages

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Heirs and Graces

Rhys Bowen

Lady Georgiana Rannoch learns that not everyone knows their table manners when a knife ends up in a duke’s back in the seventh Royal Spyness Mystery. London, 1934. Entrusted by Her Majesty the Queen with grooming Jack Altringham—the Duke of Eynsford’s newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback of Australia—for high society, Georgie now has the luxurious opportunity to live in one of England’s

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Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman

Tessa Arlen · 433 pages

"Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined."--

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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

Stephanie Barron · 318 pages

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Death around the Bend

T E Kinsey · 315 pages

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Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

Kathy Lynn Emerson · 256 pages

Left alone to handle the uproar following the poisoning murder of the steward, Lady Susanna Appleton, an expert herbalist, seeks to identify what killed the steward while unmasking the killer.

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The Winter Garden Mystery

Carola Dunn · 256 pages

The body of a pregnant maid is discovered on the grounds of an English manor and police accuse the gardener of killing her. Fortunately, Town and Country reporter Daisy Dalrymple is around to clear the man's name and find the real killer. By the author of Death at Wentwater Court.

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Murder at Bray Manor

Lee Strauss · 260 pages

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Death Comes to Pemberley

P.D. James · 330 pages

Death Comes to Pemberly is a murder mystery based on the characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The novel joins Mr and Mrs Darcy after they have been married for six year and just as they are preparing to hold their annual ball in honour of Mr Darcy’s mother. Everything is going well, Jane and Bingley have arrived and their staff have preparations well in hand. Then the night befor

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After the Armistice Ball

Catriona McPherson · 303 pages

Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. And what could be better than to seek out the Duffy diamonds, stolen from the Esselmont's country house, Croys, after the Armistice Ball?

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Behind the Shattered Glass

Tasha Alexander · 304 pages

Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreaves' husband Colin. But the stately calm of country life is destroyed when their neighbor, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering. But who has a motive for murdering the young aristocrat--the lovely cousin who was threatened by his engagement, the Oxford

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Death at Bishop's Keep

Robin Paige · 304 pages

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Death of a Cozy Writer

G.M. Malliet · 297 pages

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Bellfield Hall

Anna Dean · 300 pages

Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiancé, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets.

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Urn Burial

Kerry Greenwood · 280 pages

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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

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Murder at Lowry House

Leighann Dobbs · 266 pages

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The Lady Julia Grey Bundle

Deanna Raybourn

"To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching on the floor."Starting with her husband's sudden death, Lady Julia Grey is swept into a world of mystery and deceit. It is also the world of the enigmatic and maddeningly attractive private investigator Nicholas Brisbane...From the extravagant world of Victoria

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Murder Your Darlings

J.J. Murphy · 316 pages

When she stumbles over the dead body of drama critic Leland Mayflower and an aspiring writer named Billy Faulkner is accused of the murder, Dorothy Parker investigates with the aid of her fellow Algonquin Round Tablemates.

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The Trouble at Wakeley Court

Clara Benson · 260 pages

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