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(0)Tessa Arlen
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Poppy Redfern is back on the case when two female fighter pilots take a fatal dive in an all-new Woman of World War II Mystery by Tessa Arlen. It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valor and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils,...
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Language
English
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"Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, the Redfern family's house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The village's Air Raid Warden, twentysomething Poppy Redfern, spends her nights patrolling the village and her days writing a novel of passion. It is a far cry from the experience of the other young...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to help her regain her job and her dignity, the pair trek out to the countryside to investigate a murder of concealed passions and secret desires. There, they are to...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique designs. Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted...
Author
Series
Lady Montfort mystery volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family's dower house to the War Office as an auxiliary hospital for officers recovering from shell shock, with their redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, contributing to the war effort as the hospital's quartermaster. Despite the hospital's success, the farming community of Haversham, led by the Montforts' neighbor Sir Winchell Meacham, does not...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers, and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's disreputable nephew is found murdered, more than the ball is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and...