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"Despite its regal name, the Queen's Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was once a medieval castle, built at the harbour entrance to Cork city. On her first visit for fifty years, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed - apart, that is, from the strange smell of gas ... But when the store's owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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900L
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In a series of journal entries, Jenny Cooper describes her stay with cousin Jane Austen in the 1790s, and her entrance into Jane's world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance.
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2020.
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Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives when she died. Now she has changed her mind and summoned her nearest and dearest, including her cousin, the Reverend Mother, to her substantial home on Bachelor's Quay to inform them of her decision. As Mrs Hendrick's relatives desperately make their case to retain a share of her wealth, riots break out on the quays outside...
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"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
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Reverend Mother mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"On opening an evil-smelling trunk labelled 'old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant, but when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides to help find the real killer"--
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Reverend Mother mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, with an appealing sense of humour. But when she is found dead one autumn morning, the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background - and uncovers some puzzling anomalies"--Publisher's description.
9) Debutantes
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Debutantes volume 01
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2012.
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950L
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"It is 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing and parties. But Violet, Daisy, Poppy and Rose Derrington are stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country. But a house as big and old as Beech Grove Manor hides many secrets, and Daisy is about to uncover one so huge it could ruin all their plans -- ruin everything -- forever."--From publisher.
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