Lady Hardcastle mysteries
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Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and theyve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. Theres a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence's mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe's country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation. Closer investigation reveals that the driver's...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady's maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch's Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night's screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows."--Publisher.
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they're wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing--and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve. The first to disappear is Dr Goddard, a scientist doing something terribly top-secret for the government. Gone too are his strongbox and its mysterious...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady's maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H's brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve. A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this 'tragic accident' than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady's maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame? When a...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke's Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage--a real one. One of the cast has been brutally murdered during the interval. When other matters get in the way of Inspector Sunderland overseeing the case himself, he asks the ever-resourceful Lady H to keep a watchful eye...
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Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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An assassination on the agenda , Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 11
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