Mrs. Jeffries and the Silent Knight (Mrs. Jeffries Series #20) by Emily Brightwell
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: October 2006
- 240pp
- Sales Rank: 77,305
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2006
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 240pp
- Sales Rank: 77,305
- Series: Mrs. Jeffries Series, #20
- ISBN-13: 9780425207086
- ISBN: 0425207080
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
When a peer is found lying face down in a frozen fountain, only the help of housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries and her crime-solving staff will give poor Inspector Witherspoon any chance of sleeping in heavenly peace on Christmas Eve.
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A Terrific Winter Readby lukal
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March 17, 2009: The book was thoroughly entertaining, even though some of the action was fairly predictable. All the same, I liked it. And I want to read another in the Mrs. Jeffries Series.
excellent historical mysteryby harstan
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August 26, 2005: Sir George is a parsimonious, mean-spirited man who cares more about his cat Samson than he does his three daughters. The cat, a mean old Tom who scratches everyone except for Sir George has been missing for two days putting his master in a fouler mood than usual. Sir George wakes up quickly when he hears Samson outside and goes to find him. Someone smashes him on his head killing him. --- Since Sir George was the cousin of Queen Victoria, his case is very high profile so Scotland Yard assigns it to Inspector Gerald Witherspoon who has a phenomenal successor rate in solving homicides. Neither Witherspoon nor his supervisors know that his housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries and the other servants of his house work behind the scenes to help their master solve his cases. This inquiry is harder than most as everyone has a motive for killing the baronet, including his three daughters, his ex-lover, the gardener the housekeeper, and trades people he cheated out of money. --- This is one historical mystery series that never gets boring or dull. The author keeps the series fresh by making each homicide case original. Lovers of late Victorian mysteries will thoroughly enjoy this tale because Inspector Witherspoon comes across as so innocent and na?ve that readers will adore him. Emily Brightwell is an author whose mysteries are well worth reading. --- Harriet Klausner
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