Cordelia Frances Biddle

A Martha Beale Mystery

1 - The Conjurer (Feb-2007)
2 - Deception's Daughter (Aug-2008)

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  Beneath the Wind
  

  • Aug-1993
  • / General Fiction
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  The Conjurer
  

  • Feb-2007
  • / Mystery
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  A Martha Beale Mystery - 1
  

  Intrigue, passion, and murder surround the suspicious disappearance of famed Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale in the winter of 1842. As his daughter and only child, Martha searches for her father. She begins to develop a romantic attachment to Tho...

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  Deception's Daughter
  

  • Aug-2008
  • / Mystery
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  A Martha Beale Mystery - 2
  

  Critics raved about The Conjurer, the first in Cordelia Frances Biddle's superb historical mystery series. Now Philadelphian heiress Martha Beale is back in a second thrilling installment laced with fast-paced intrigue and exquisite period detail. ...

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  Without Fear
  

  • Feb-2010
  • / Mystery
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  Critics have lauded Cordelia Frances Biddle's historical series featuring heiress Martha Beale. The indomitable heroine returns in Without Fear when a decapitated corpse is discovered at Joseph Bonaparte's palatial estate near Philadelphia. A vanishe...

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  The Actress
  

  • Dec-2015
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld in a series that “wonderfully evokes the color and culture of the time” (Publishers Weekly).   Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman who would typi...

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  Sins of Commission
  

  • Dec-2017
  • / Thriller
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  A society woman struggles to solve cases of arson and abduction in Victorian-era Philadelphia, in the series praised as “a fine mix of history and mystery” (Booklist).   In nineteenth-century Philadelphia, a case of arson turns lethal -- but...

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