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A Case of Doubtful Death: A Frances Doughty Mystery by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Frances Doughty #3
The year is 1880. In West London, a dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that no one can be buried alive. When he collapses and dies on the same night that one of his most reliable em ...Show more
A Timely Death by Janet Neel
Category: No Category | Series: The\Francesca Wilson Mysteries Ser.
Francesca Wilson, heroine of Neel's sophisticated (The New York Times Book Review) and stylish (St. Petersburg Times) mysteries, takes on her fifth case. Francesca finds that her marriage may be in jeopardy when she meets a handsome lawyer while substituting for her flu-ridden mother at a women's reuge. ...Show more
A True and Faithful Brother - A Frances Doughty Mystery by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Frances Doughty Mysteries Ser.
London 1882: When a wealthy philanthropist disappears from a locked and guarded room, Frances Doughty is reluctantly drawn into a case that tears the veil of mystery from her own past. Can London's very own Lady Detective solve this sinister new case before a murderer catches up with her and she becomes ...Show more
An Appetite for Murder by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Frances Doughty Mysteries Ser.
The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furore in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is engaged to discover the author of anonymous libels, when a former colleague ...Show more
Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
Category: Picture Books | Series: Frances
It may be bedtime for Frances, but that does not mean Frances is ready to go to bed - not by a long shot. First she must have a glass of milk and make certain Mother and Father have each kissed her good night (twice). Then she is ready to imagine there is a tiger in her room, and a giant, and...each tim ...Show more
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Category: Picture Books | Series: Frances
Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in Bread and Jam for Frances, beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story, Frances decides that bread and jam are all she wants to eat, and her understanding ...Show more
Death in Bayswater (A Frances Doughty Mystery) by Linda Stratmann
Category: No Category | Series: Frances Doughty Mystery
'This book confirms Frances Doughty's reputation as one of the most likeable fictional detectives of the Victorian era.' - L.C. TYLER, author of the Elsie and Ethelred comic crime series and of the John Grey historical mysteries 'Death in Bayswater is another classic - deftly plotted with a rich cast of ...Show more
Murder at the Bayswater Bicycle Club by Linda Stratmann
Category: No Category | Series: The\Frances Doughty Mysteries Ser.
LONDON 1882: In this, her most demanding case, Frances Doughty goes undercover for Her Majesty's Government to investigate some disturbing information regarding the apparently innocuous Bayswater Bicycle Club. Before long, she is plunged into a murky world of deadly secrets, a suspicious disappearance a ...Show more
The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Frances Doughty Mystery Ser.
The fifth in a series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London with a clever and determined female sleuth London 1881: When a body is found in the Paddington canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment claims that the remains are those of her missing husband, who disappeared three years ago. Unab ...Show more
The Daughters of Gentlemen - A Frances Doughty Mystery by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Frances Doughty Mystery Ser.
The second book in the series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London, with a clever and determined female sleuth Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Educati ...Show more
The Frances Hodgson Burnett Essential Collection (Boxed Set) - The Secret Garden; a Little Princess; Little Lord Fauntleroy; the Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: Children's Books | Series: The\Frances Hodgson Burnett Essential Collection
A collection of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most famous and enduring children's classics--The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The Lost Prince--now together in a luminous collectible hardcover boxed set. Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novels continue to capture the hear ...Show more
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