Linda Stratmann

A Frances Doughty Mystery

The Poisonous Seed (May-2012)
The Daughters of Gentlemen (Apr-2013)

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  The Poisonous Seed
  

  • May-2012
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  A Frances Doughty Mystery
  

  The first in a new Victorian murder mystery series set in London, featuring a clever and determined young female sleuth When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, Wil...

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  A Case of Doubtful Death
  

  • Apr-2013
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  The year is 1880. In West London, a dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that no one can be buried alive. When he collapses and ...

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  The Daughters of Gentlemen
  

  • Apr-2013
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  A Frances Doughty Mystery
  

  The second book in the series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London, with a clever and determined female sleuth Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamph...

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  An Appetite for Murder
  

  • Jul-2014
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  The fourth entry in the Victorian London murder mystery series with a clever and determined female sleuthThe sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furor in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet do...

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  The Children of Silence
  

  • Jul-2015
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  The fifth in a series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London with a clever and determined female sleuthLondon 1881: When a body is found in the Paddington canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment claims that the remains are those of her mi...

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  MR Scarletti's Ghost
  

  • Dec-2015
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  The first book in an exciting new Victorian murder mystery series featuring a young female detective
  In 19th century Brighton, England spirit mediums are all the fashion -- especially Miss Eustace, a psychic who claims to produce apparitions of ...

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  Death in Bayswater
  

  • Jun-2016
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  London 1881: Bayswater is in the grip of panic as a ruthless murderer prowls the foggy streets of the nation's capital. Residents live in fear, rumors and accusations abound, and vigilante groups patrol by night. It is not of course, a suitable case ...

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  Royal Ghost
  

  • Jan-2017
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  Brighton, 1871: a book by two respectable spinsters claiming to have seen the ghost of the Prince Regent in Brighton Pavilion shocks the town and attracts the attention of spiritualist Arthur Wallace Hope. Young Mina Scarletti, a writer of horror sto...

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  A True and Faithful Brother
  

  • Jun-2017
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  London 1882: When a wealthy philanthropist disappears from a locked and guarded room, Frances Doughty is reluctantly drawn into a case that tears the veil of mystery from her own past. Can London’s very own Lady Detective solve this sinister new ca...

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  Murder at the Bayswater Bicycle Club
  

  • Jul-2018
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  London, 1882: In this her final case, Frances Doughty goes undercover for Her Majesty's Government to investigate some disturbing information regarding the apparently innocuous Bayswater Bicycle Club. Before long she is plunged into a murky world of ...

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