Allison Montclair

A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery

1 - The Right Sort of Man (Jun-2019)
2 - A Royal Affair (Aug-2020)
2.5 - The Haunting of the Desks (May-2021)
3 - A Rogue's Company (Jun-2021)
4 - The Unkept Woman (Aug-2022)
5 - The Lady from Burma (Aug-2023)
6 - Murder at the White Palace (Jul-2024)

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  The Right Sort of Man
  

  • Jun-2019
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 1
  

  First comes love, then comes murder. In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair―The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and im...

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  A Royal Affair
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 2
  

  More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair’s delightful second novel, A Royal...

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  The Haunting of the Desks
  

  • May-2021
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 2.5
  

  Sparks and Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau return in this short story from Allison Montclair as their expansion into a new office - and acquisition of a new desk - results in unexplainable phenomena that can only mean that their new digs...

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  A Rogue's Company
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 3
  

  In Allison Montclair's A Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of...

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  The Unkept Woman
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 4
  

  Allison Montclair returns with the fourth Sparks & Bainbridge mystery, The Unkept Woman: London, 1946, Miss Iris Sparks--currently co-proprietor of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau--has to deal with aspects of her past exploits during the recent w...

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  The Lady from Burma
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 5
  

  In Allison Montclair's The Lady from Burma, murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London… In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikel...

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  Murder at the White Palace
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery - 6
  

  In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder.In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture -- The Rig...

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  An Excellent Thing in a Woman
  

  • Feb-2025
  • / Historical Mystery
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  The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them!London, 1947. Spirited M...

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