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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. London, 1904. The Seven Acts Theatre has opened to rapturous applause, and its proprietor, Quill, has been found dead behind the curtain. With the press already circling and the city's gossips sharpening their pens, a steady hand is required before opening night becomes the scandal of the season. Miss Temperance Vane arrives to provide exactly that.Temperance is an enquiry agent of the new Edwardian sort - sharp-tongued, impeccably dressed, and possessed of an unsettling talent for noticing what the rest of the room has agreed to overlook. Working alongside her devoted assistant Nell, she moves through the theatre's labyrinth of dressing rooms, trapdoors, and carefully staged lies, taking statements from a principal cast still in their finery, a rival producer nursing old grudges, and a stage door keeper whose memory is sharper than anyone has given him credit for.The suspects are many. A valet keeps two ledgers, one of which he would clearly prefer not to discuss. A patron's parlor holds rather more secrets than a respectable drawing room ought. A trapdoor with a mind of its own complicates every alibi. And somewhere in the company's ranks sits a murderer who has not yet realised that Temperance's particular gift is making the guilty wish they had simply stayed home.Seven acts of deception, one opening night, and a clock that will not stop ticking. The clues are fair, the manners impeccable, and the wit sharper than a stage dagger.A perfectly charming entry point for newcomers and a satisfying return for series readers, Book 5 of the Miss Temperance Vane Enquiries delivers the wit, warmth, and airtight plotting that fans of the Violet Carlyle Mysteries, the Duchess of Stortford, and Helen Golden have made their own. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. London, 1891. The newly widowed Marchioness of Merritt is determined to return to society before her mourning period is officially over, despite her mother-in-law's disapproval. Her first event since Edmund's death is a glittering ball at the home of a notorious rake. But beneath the refreshment table, Eleanor finds a body-and a scandal that threatens to ruin the entire Season. With Scotland Yard baffled and the suspects all too polite to confess, Eleanor must navigate a minefield of blackmail, secret debts, and social hypocrisy to solve the crime. She never asked to be a detective, but as she discovers, the only way to survive the Season is to outwit the people who think she's just a woman in a mourning bonnet. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Lady Eleanor Merritt has spent the last year mourning her husband in a cloud of black crepe, but when a guest at a Hampshire house party dies under suspicious circumstances, she is dispatched to Sutton Place to ensure the scandal remains a quiet 'accident.' What she finds is a drawing room full of suspects performing innocence with varying degrees of theatrical commitment. From the grieving widow to the suspiciously cheerful hostess, everyone has a motive, and everyone is lying. With Inspector Hale stuck in London and her own reputation hanging by a thread, Eleanor must navigate a minefield of social propriety and poisoned tea to uncover the truth before the next guest arrives. Because in a house of secrets, the only thing more dangerous than a murder is a scandal that ruins a marriage. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Miss Temperance Vane is not in the habit of taking instructions from foreign governments. As an enquiry agent of some reputation in Edwardian London, she prefers her clients domestic, her cases tidy, and her mornings free for proper tea. But when the Grand Duchy of Vasmark comes calling with a diplomatic crisis and a very generous retainer, discretion wins out over principle - particularly because the missing items are compromising letters capable of setting off an international incident of the sort that ends careers and starts wars.Book four of the Miss Temperance Vane, Enquiries series opens at 12 Gower Street on a grey morning in 1904, where an unnamed gentleman arrives at her door and a rather grand ambassador explains exactly how much trouble his embassy is in. The trail leads from a suspiciously empty safe to a Whitehall-trained cat with impeccable credentials, a forger of unsettling talent working the London black market, and a press corps already sharpening their pencils for the scandal of the season. Two governments want what Temperance is holding, and neither of them is telling the whole truth.For readers who love the plotting of Agatha Christie served with the tone of P. G. Wodehouse, this is a charmingly British, delightfully deadly stand-alone mystery. The case resolves fully on the final page, with every clue laid fairly and every thread tied off - no cliffhangers, no loose ends, just the deep satisfaction of a puzzle solved by a heroine worth following for decades.Temperance Vane investigates because she is very good at it, because the police are politely otherwise occupied, and because the people who come to her door tend to deserve whatever they get. Her London is lived-in rather than lectured about: the clothes, the manners, the delicious social tension of a woman doing things she was not, strictly speaking, supposed to do. Fans of the Violet Carlyle Mysteries, the Duchess of Stortford series, and other witty historical mysteries will find a new enquiry agent to add to their must-binge list. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Lord Ashcombe has died, and his will has vanished. The only person who knew its contents was his solicitor, Mr. Alaric Fenwick-a man whose temper is as volatile as his signature. When the will reappears, it names a beneficiary who is already dead. When the second beneficiary is found murdered in his own library, the stakes rise from financial ruin to bloodshed. Enter Eleanor Ashworth, Marchioness of Merritt, a woman who finds the rigid propriety of the Season far more suffocating than a locked room. With the help of her sharp-eyed maid Sarah Bell and the exasperated Inspector Hale, Eleanor must navigate a web of forged documents, furious heirs, and one truly insufferable solicitor before the third body is found. Because in the world of the aristocracy, a missing will is never just a lost paper; it is a declaration of war. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A Mayfair art dealer lies dead in his own gallery, and the only witness to his final hours is a young woman who claims to be his natural daughter. The solicitor handling the estate has no wish to hand a fortune to an impostor, and no confidence the police will trouble themselves with the question. He hires Miss Temperance Vane.Temperance has built her discreet enquiry practice on a single working principle: grief and guilt wear the same face. She has no intention of accepting either on faith. The claimant's story shifts with every interview, a Scotland Yard inspector is distracted by scandal at the Press Club, and somewhere in the gallery's ledgers a careful trail of forgery waits to be followed by anyone patient enough to examine the brushwork.The Miss Temperance Vane, Enquiries series returns with its second case, set against the gaslit drawing rooms and cluttered back offices of Edwardian London. Temperance is assisted by her sharp-eyed associate Nell, hindered by a solicitor who considers discretion a personal religion, and watched, with increasing professional interest, by an inspector who has learned not to underestimate her.For readers who want Agatha Christie's plotting served with P.G. Wodehouse's tone, The Forger's Daughter offers a country-house mystery in city clothes: fair clues, satisfying reveals, and a heroine who observes the absurdity of her world with affectionate contempt. Period detail is worn lightly, the supporting cast is genuinely eccentric, and the central question, whether the girl at the door is heiress, impostor, or something far worse, is answered in full before the final page.Book Two in the Miss Temperance Vane, Enquiries series. Perfect for fans of witty female sleuths, Edwardian London, and murder served with a twist of humour. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. London, late 1903. At the annual Press Club banquet, crusading editor Sir Arthur Pendelton raises his glass, begins his toast, and collapses before the rim touches his lips. Half the room exhales in quiet relief. Miss Temperance Vane, Edwardian London's most discreet enquiry agent, is rather more interested in the other half.Called in when Scotland Yard would rather not be, Temperance arrives to find Fleet Street ready to print its own version of events, a guest list thick with grudges, and a murdered man whose private notes suggest he had been building toward a story worth killing for. Sorting real motive from mere dislike proves rather more difficult than anyone at the Press Club would care to admit, and Temperance is soon navigating a world of proprietors, junior editors, chemists, and coroners' clerks, each with their own small secrets to protect.With Detective Inspector Hale distracted by the official inquiry and the press sharpening its pens, Temperance must work her own quiet channels - through a mutual acquaintance in the trade, a chemist of her acquaintance, and the patient assistance of Jasper Wren, her late mentor's long-suffering assistant. The clues she uncovers lead from the banquet hall back to the offices of the Chronicle itself, where a crusading editor's enemies prove rather more numerous, and considerably more willing to speak at length, than his admirers ever allowed.Fair clues, airtight plotting, and a satisfying resolution await in this third outing of a series beloved by readers who want Agatha Christie's plotting served with P.G. Wodehouse's tone. Charmingly British, delightfully deadly, and carried throughout with a wit-forward hand, Poison at the Press Club is the perfect next read for fans of female sleuths, country-house murders, and historical mysteries with a twist of humour. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. London, December 1891. The annual Charity Masquerade at the Grand Hotel is the season's most anticipated social event, hosted by the formidable Lady Penelope Thorne. But when a guest is found dead beneath the chandelier, the elegant revelry turns to panic. With the killer still masked and the hostess quick to blame the catering staff for a 'tragic accident, ' Eleanor Marchioness of Merritt finds herself in the thick of it. As the only one who noticed the killer's slip of a glove, Eleanor must navigate a ballroom full of suspects, including a jealous countess, a disgraced financier, and a solicitor with a grudge, before Lady Penelope's reputation-and her own-crumbles. Can Eleanor solve the murder before the police arrive and the truth is buried under layers of scandal? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. London, 1903. Miss Temperance Vane has opened an enquiry agency for the sort of clients the police cannot be bothered to help - and there are, she is discovering, a great many such clients. Her offices sit on the ground floor of 12 Gower Street, her retainer is modest, her assistant Nell is sharper than any of them, and her methods are entirely her own.Her first proper commission arrives in the form of Miss Cordelia Ashworth, a respectable young woman whose fiance, Viscount Reginald Fenwick, has vanished the day before their wedding. With him has gone a considerable fortune - money meant to rescue the family estate, and money that certain gentlemen had very particular reasons to want for themselves. Scotland Yard has called it a domestic matter. The family would prefer a quiet bride. Nobody, it seems, intends to look for the man at all.Temperance does intend to look. What she finds, in a rented room off Dorset Street and in the ledgers of a solicitor with too much patience and too little conscience, is not an elopement of the heart but a careful, calculating theft - and a viscount too drugged and too ashamed to cry for help. The trail runs through Fleet Street offices, a discreet gambling club off St. James's, and a household whose silence has been bought and paid for.Plotted with the clockwork fairness of an old-fashioned whodunit and told with the dry, observant wit of a heroine who refuses to be told where she may and may not go, The Case of the Vanishing Viscount is the opening of a brand-new Edwardian mystery series. Charmingly British, delightfully deadly, served with a twist of humour - and a heroine quite prepared to pour it herself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Eleanor, Marchioness of Merritt, has spent four quiet seasons quietly solving the murders that polite society would prefer left unsolved. The fifth is rather more inconvenient. Her closest friend - Cressida, the thrice-divorced Duchess of Ashcombe, a woman of eccentric habits and notoriously sharp opinions - has been arrested for the poisoning of Cornelius Vane, a gentleman she had the poor judgement to threaten in front of twelve witnesses at his own dinner table. To the public, Cressida is a monster. To Eleanor, she is the only friend who understands the absurdity of high society. Proving her innocence, however, is a different beast than proving it in a drawing room.Inspector Josiah Hale of Scotland Yard receives the case with the weary patience of a man who has known Eleanor rather too long. Solicitor Fenwick, summoned in desperation, finds the entire business insufferably messy. The evidence, such as it is, points squarely at Cressida; the social codes of Edwardian England ensure that a duchess's word is worth rather less than a servant's; and the real murderer, Eleanor suspects, is still comfortably seated among the company.What follows is a country house enquiry conducted with impeccable manners and a deeply improper amount of snooping. Eleanor traces financial deceit through a tangled family trust, examines the dinner table itself for clues the police have overlooked, and confronts the particular cruelty of a man whose death has solved rather a lot of inconvenient problems for his heir. With Fenwick's legal persistence and her own stubborn observation, she assembles the evidence for a reckoning the guilty party never expected.Charmingly British, delightfully deadly, and served with a twist of humour, The Duchess Didn't Do It is Book 5 of The Marchioness of Merritt Mysteries - a Victorian and Edwardian historical mystery series for readers who want airtight plotting, lived-in period detail, and a female sleuth who observes the absurdity of her world with affectionate contempt. Ideal for fans of the Violet Carlyle Mysteries, Beth Byers, and the Duchess of Stortford series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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