- Publisher: No Exit
- Year: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781835012123
- Product code: 540672
Murder at Merry Beggars Hall
Jemima Flowerday 1
Kay Blythe New Paperback
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Rich with period detail, this cosy crime thriller introduces feisty dressmaker Jemima Flowerday. Summoned in 1922 to a Suffolk country house to design Lady Hamlash's Christmas gowns, the keen amateur sleuth is faced with two confounding cases involving a severed head found beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche and the rather suspicious death of Cook.
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Jemima Flowerday combines her skills as a dressmaker and sleuth to solve crime in the crumbling stately homes of 1920s Britain.
'A brilliant cosy mystery and a fantastic introduction to what is promising to be an absolutely addictive and compelling new series' real reader review
'Moves along at a cracking pace, is well- written, and excellently plotted' real reader review
'An intriguing read and I really enjoyed it. I think the author caught the era just right' real reader review
December 1922, and society dressmaker Jemima Flowerday receives a letter from Lady Hamlash of Merry Beggars Hall, requesting three new gowns for the Christmas season. Lady Hamlash does not travel, so Jemima will need to visit the Hall in deepest Suffolk to work in situ.
The commission appeals to Jemima for more than one reason. It will bring her some much-needed income. More interestingly, the remote manor house was the scene of a grisly murder earlier that year, when Lady Hamlash, inspecting her plants in the walled garden, found a man's severed head beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche.
The murder was never solved.
Jemima, addicted to mystery novels and with a proud history of solving crimes in her own world, is sure she can crack the case. That ambition becomes a little more complicated when, within hours of her arrival at Merry Beggars Hall, the household cook dies in front of her...
'A brilliant cosy mystery and a fantastic introduction to what is promising to be an absolutely addictive and compelling new series' real reader review
'Moves along at a cracking pace, is well- written, and excellently plotted' real reader review
'An intriguing read and I really enjoyed it. I think the author caught the era just right' real reader review
December 1922, and society dressmaker Jemima Flowerday receives a letter from Lady Hamlash of Merry Beggars Hall, requesting three new gowns for the Christmas season. Lady Hamlash does not travel, so Jemima will need to visit the Hall in deepest Suffolk to work in situ.
The commission appeals to Jemima for more than one reason. It will bring her some much-needed income. More interestingly, the remote manor house was the scene of a grisly murder earlier that year, when Lady Hamlash, inspecting her plants in the walled garden, found a man's severed head beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche.
The murder was never solved.
Jemima, addicted to mystery novels and with a proud history of solving crimes in her own world, is sure she can crack the case. That ambition becomes a little more complicated when, within hours of her arrival at Merry Beggars Hall, the household cook dies in front of her...
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Rich with period detail, this cosy crime thriller introduces feisty dressmaker Jemima Flowerday. Summoned in 1922 to a Suffolk country house to design Lady Hamlash's Christmas gowns, the keen amateur sleuth is faced with two confounding cases involving a severed head found beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche and the rather suspicious death of Cook.
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