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Facing financial ruin, Abigail and her father search for affordable lodgings until a strange solicitor arrives with an astounding offer: the use of a distant abandoned manor house. The Fosters are startled to find Pembrooke Park entombed as it was abruptly left: tea set on the table, moth-eaten clothes in the wardrobes, a doll's house left in mid-play. The handsome local curate and his family welcomes them with a warning: Beware trespassers drawn...

In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately Appsworth Hall, reputed to have the best grotto in England. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan a productive weekend researching and photographing it. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple. When the grotto explodes with the abominable Lord Rydal in it, the question is not who would do it, but who...

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them--Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives.

It begins with a simple note: Roger Bascombe wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. But Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience, is determined to find out why her fiance should have thrown her over so cruelly. Adopting a disguise, she follows her erstwhile lover to the forbidding Harschmort manor, where she discovers a world--by turns seductive and shocking--she could never have imagined, and a conspiracy...

Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip. Something sinister is afoot at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the sleepy English village of Nether Monkslip. Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the days when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. But a sudden...

1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming. Beth even feels like she's part of the family... until they ask her to help them with a harmless game--and nothing is ever the same. 2019. Sadie Langton is an actress who lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be guest at a weekend party. When she sees the stunning manor she'll be staying at, she figures...

They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted--at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between. Now, in 1935, eight men and women join...

"For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with...