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September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpes country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies i
July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as theyre wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missingand the duo find themselves with a hyst
August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable ladys maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady Hs brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve. A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has go
Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the h
November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Dukes Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stagea real one. One of the cast ha
January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the ret
May 1912. After the previous years deadly heatwave, its been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal ladys maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the villages inaugural art exhibition
Theyre hoping this visit is a return journeybut it might be a one-way ticket to murder. July 1912. Lady Hardcastle and her tenacious ladys maid, Florence Armstrong, are enjoying a convivial gathering at the home of their dear friends, the Farley-Strouds.
Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and theyve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long befor
Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie.
Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted ladys maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky mov