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81) Death of a maid
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 22
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
After winning her services in a church raffle, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds himself investigating the death of a housecleaner bludgeoned to death with her own pail.
Author
Series
Florence Norris mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
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...
Author
Series
Florence Norris mystery 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
Moonshine madness volume 1
Publisher
Wild Prairie Rose Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Charlotte LeDoux's nine-year marriage to bootlegging kingpin, Gus "Lucky" LeDoux is falling apart. The same day Char learns she is pregnant, she catches Gus in the act of adultery and it's clear he has no intention of ending the affair. Soon after, their night club is raided by Federal agents. As she flees from the chaos, Char is separated from Gus and faces a choice; search out her fugitive husband or change her identity and disappear. With her life...
86) Renfield
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, encounter an uncharitable killer at a charity luncheon sponsored by a posh school for girls... --Publisher
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a domestic in the royal household and fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales are challenge enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder in an opium den - and scandal threatens the royal family - Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone very close...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mystery volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-WWI England, this historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, hunting a killer after the decision to open Foxwood Hall for guided tours turns deadly.
Author
Series
Thornbrook Park volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
1907. Lady Alice Emerson is entirely unsatisfied with the endless stream of boring suitors her family finds appropriate. She wants something more. Something daring. Something real. Each tiresome new suitor only serves to further inflame Lady Alice's combustible attraction to Thornbrook Park's rugged, manly estate manager, Logan Winthrop. Despite Logan's stubborn attempts to avoid her, Lady Alice is irresistible, and so is the forbidden desire exploding...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Gardiner walks onto the vast frozen river behind her home. As a younger woman, she used to steal out on winter nights to meet her lover, walking straight across the ice to their secret meeting place. She knows the way--but not the year. Miriam, her mind clouded by dementia, doesn't hear the snap of thin ice until it's too late. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or worse: did someone urge the old woman onto...
97) The plum tree
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.
98) If you are there
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about a young Polish girl and her friendships with Madame Curie and Eusapia Palladino.
Author
Series
Mrs. Jeffries volume 29
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case--preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve--but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.
100) Upstairs, downstairs
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new 'downstairs' family to help run the elegance and finery of the...
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