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Royal summons
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Elizabeth Cadell |
An independent, spirited beauty, Ellen Berg seemed the least likely girl to fall in love with an historic ruin in a small English village. But that was before she was told of her deceased mother's re… |
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The house at midnight
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Lucie Whitehouse |
After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. After his friends visit, Lucas becomes obsessed with home movies made at Stoneborough thirty years earlier… |
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The glass books of the dream eaters
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Gordon Dahlquist |
A professional killer, a disillusioned Germanic officer and a jilted young lady dash around Victorian England risking their lives, their honour and their virtue. |
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Past malice
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Dana Cameron |
As per the author's website at: http://www.danacameron.com/books.html
Asked to join a dig at the site of the eighteenth-century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student crew hav… |
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Manor gardens and parks of Latvia
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Ilze Māra Janelis |
"Ilzes Māras Janelis - parku vēsturiskās ainavas speciālistes, pētnieces grāmata par Latvijas muižu dārziem un parkiem, par to attīstību, stilistisko daudzveidību un pašreizējo vietu Latvijas ainavā.… |
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A charitable body
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Robert Barnard |
"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee … |
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Tyringham Park
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Rosemary McLoughlin |
It is a beautiful day in 1917, and Tyringham Park is in an uproar after Victoria Blackshaw, an innocent toddler, disappears without a trace. The feverish search for Victoria soon uncovers jealousies … |
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The Old Manor House (Broadview Literary Texts)
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Charlotte Turner Smith |
"In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance… |
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Peculiar ground
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett |
It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after d… |
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Losing Ground
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Catherine Aird |
A Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery
The dramatic theft of an eighteenth-century painting is discovered just before the old manor house from which it was stolen—and is uniquely depicted… |
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Fiercombe Manor
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Kate Riordan |
"This ... dual-narrative historical novel, which will appeal to fans of Rebecca and The little stranger, features two women of very different eras who are united by the secrets hidden within the wall… |
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Murder at the manor
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Martin Edwards |
The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British… |
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Abigale Hall
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Lauren A. Forry |
"Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to su… |
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Murderous mayhem at Honeychurch Hall
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Hannah Dennison |
"When the only copy of Ravished, Iris Stanford's new manuscript, never arrives at her London publisher's office, her daughter Kat investigates the tiny local village post office, where it appears the… |
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The Thornthwaite betrayal
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Gareth P. Jones |
After a lifetime of plotting each other's demise, orphan twins Lorelli and Ovid Thornthwaite have reached an uneasy truce and are living a quieter life in the remains of the burnt-out Thornthwaite Ma… |
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The girl in the photograph
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Kate Riordan |
Contemporary fiction. Summer, 1933. Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in the beautiful yet isolated house, in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice begi… |
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Eaton Hall
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Kelly Mathews |
"In 1901, Florence McCrea married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not lo… |
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Tehidy and the Bassets
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Michael Tangye |
History of the Basset family and the manor of Tehidy from the earliest record (in the Domesday Book) until the twentieth century. |
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The Secret of Chimneys
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Agatha Christie |
A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs… |
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The Love Knot
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Rebecca Brandewyne |
Beware passion's tangled net . . .
Racing along the rocky coast of Cornwall, on a night fit for neither man nor beast, Verity Collier's coach is attacked by the notorious highwayman plaguing the C… |
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