Ed McBain meets Jane Austen in this witty and sharp-edged introduction to the sleuthing duo of Elizabeth Blair and Max Shepard. Wry and down-to-earth Elizabeth is a widow who has forsaken her native Turkey Creek, Virginia, for a genteel English exist...
When the Animal Liberation Front places a poster in the Martha Washington quilt shop window reading SUPPORT TURKEY'S LIB. STOP THE SHAMEFUL SLAUGHTER, shopkeeper Elizabeth Blair is incredulous that she has been singled out. A quick-witted widow...
An actress dies with shocking suddenness while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Bitchy and manipulative, Flora Messel had enemies and she had alwa...
Life in an English Stately Home - For the Jago family, the ending of the Second World War comes with a heavy price: the death of their son, Kit. But life must go on for the destitute aristocrats and, in an act of desperation, Virginia Jago call...