Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict
Mrs. Jeffries is the Miss Marple of Victorian Mystery.—The Paperback ForumGUILTY BYSTANDERSAfter a perfectly decent local woman is killed during a robbery, the Witherspoon household receives a surprising visit from a stranger named Blimpey Groggins. He claims his best buddy was convicted of the...
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Mrs. Jeffries is the Miss Marple of Victorian Mystery.—The Paperback ForumGUILTY BYSTANDERSAfter a perfectly decent local woman is killed during a robbery, the Witherspoon household receives a surprising visit from a stranger named Blimpey Groggins. He claims his best buddy was convicted of the crime. He also claims the peaceable chap didn’t even know how to fire a gun. And considering he’s to be hanged in three weeks, Blimpey’s desperate to find the real killer. With the trail cold, the crime allegedly solved, and the evidence mucked up, Mrs. Jeffries and her belowstairs cohorts have their work cut out for them if they want to save an innocent man from the gallows.A Mrs. Jeffries MysteryShe keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon…and keeps him on his toes. Everyone’s awed by his Scotland Yard successes—but they don’t know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries’ polished detection skills are up to the task…proving that behind every great man there’s a woman—and that a crimesolver’s work is never done.First Time in Print!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425209691 (0425209695)
ASIN: 425209695
Publish date: May 2nd 2006
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Mrs Jeffries 2 (#21)
As always a nice read in this series. I always look forward to see what case the servants are going to work on next with the inspector. I already started the next one.
This series is a quick read. It is too bad that the editing is so poor. Even the writing gets monotonous because the characters are always speaking "softly." Neither the housekeeper or the inspector ever speaks harshly, quietly, loudly, irrationally, etc. I stopped reading the story and started ...