Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot by Emily Brightwell
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: November 2000
- 224pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2000
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 224pp
- Series: Mrs. Jeffries Series
- ISBN-13: 9780425177457
- ISBN: 0425177459
Synopsis
Annabeth Gentry thinks someone wants her dead. When Mrs. Jeffries discovers three attempts on her life, she thinks Annabeth may be right. Now she must unearth answers-and fast!
"Full of humor, suspense, adventure, and touches of romance...delightful."-Rendezvous
* 15th in the successful series
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delightfully eccentric Victorian mysteryby harstan
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October 21, 2000: The house on Upper Edmonton Garden belongs to Scotland Yard?s Inspector Weatherspoon, a police officer with a homicide resolution rate of 100 %. Except for the participants, no one, including the inspector, realizes that his success is due to his household staff ?guiding? him through the quagmire of an investigation. ,P>The latest case comes from a previous murder inquiry. Martha Dowling asks the Weatherspoon household for help. Her employee Annabeth Gentry inherited a fortune, a home, and several murder attempts ever since her dog dug up the body of a pick pocket near her new residence. The caretaker of a school near Dowling?s estate is also killed. Weatherspoon and his unofficial team begin to make inquiries.
This is the sixteenth installment in the delightfully eccentric Victorian mystery series yet the story line retains a fresh thought provoking feel as if MRS. JEFFRIES WEEDS THE PLOT is the first novel. Still, the return of the cast feels like old friends are visiting. The mystery is well drawn even though a hint at the identity of the killer at the midpoint seems a bit early, but it does not take away from Emily Brightwell?s wonderful historical amateur sleuth tale.
Harriet Klausner
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