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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's 'ornamental hermit' to live on the estate. Suddenly everyone wants to visit Mullings to glimpse this mysterious figure. Strange but harmless, thinks Florence Norris, the family's longstanding...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
The story of Tessa Fields, a young orphan determined to uncover her true origins. With the help of the Misses Tramwells, two endearing elderly ladies, and the reluctant assistance of her secret love, Harry Harkness, Tessa hits upon a scheme that finds her feigning amnesia and recovering in the Tramwells's ancestral home. But it isn't long before Tessa smells a rat. Why does the butler creep around in his socks, and what was he doing in her closet?...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, haven't had a vacation in years. Now their bags are packed, and they're ready to set off for a romantic getaway to France. But things go awry when a chain-smoking gypsy approaches Ellie with a dire prediction: "Take that trip at your peril!" Those ominous words ring true when her prodigal father Morley suddenly appears with an urn containing the remains of his ladylove, Harriet, whose untimely death in a car accident...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Viking Mystery Suspense
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Two charwomen are murdered in the English village of Chitterton Fells. Sleuth Ellie Haskell poses as a charwoman to gain entry to homes in the neighborhood, hoping to find clues.
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ellie's precocious 13-year-old niece, Ariel Hopkins, shows up at the Haskells' house, Merlin Court, one stormy night. Ariel, who's read too many gothic novels, has made her way from far-away Yorkshire, where her father, Tom, and stepmother, Betty, after winning the lottery, bought an Elizabethan mansion dubbed by Ariel "Withering Heights." Ariel claims that her wicked stepmom is obsessed with finding the body of Nigel Gallagher, the mansion's previous...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In a pub in England four women amuse themselves over gins, discussing ways of bumping off their mothers-in-law. The game is interrupted by a real mother-in-law murder and the ladies join forces to solve it.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
No sooner does elderly Sir Henry Gossinger announce his will, in which he leaves his 12th Century mansion to his butler, than the butler is killed. Suspicion falls on Sir Henry's new wife, who normally would have been the inheritor, as well as other family members. But did they really do it? Flora, the butler's granddaughter investigates.
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ellie Haskell and her housekeeper, Mrs Malloy, are mistaken for detectives and hired by Lady Krumley to investigate a series of fatal accidents that she is convinced are tied to a thirty-year-old curse.
Author
Series
Florence Norris mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Suspecting foul play when a mild-mannered villager is found dead, housekeeper Florence Norris investigates a surprise will that reveals dark secrets in the victim's family history.
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
11) The widows club
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell of the Flowers Detective Agency are retained to investigate the possible murders of unfaithful husbands in the village of Chitterdon Fells and turn up evidence of the deadly Widows Club.
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbling establishment by offering himself as the prize on a TV reality show, but after one of his potential brides is shot during an archery contest, Ellie Haskell begins to explore the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Belfrey's delightfully Gothic estate--unprepared for the secrets lurking behind closed doors.
Author
Series
Florence Norris mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"March 1933, Dovecote Hatch, England. Florence Norris knows she has found a good man in George 'Birdie' Bird, the landlord of the local pub, The Dog & Whistle. They are set to marry in a low-key service at the parish church in their beloved village Dovecote Hatch. But when a mysterious stranger seeks out George, sharing family secrets and talks of an illegal burial years ago, an ominous dread falls over the happy couple. Soon they are pulled reluctantly...
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