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"Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighboring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence,...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theatre, she cannot turn away the woman...
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Laetitia Rodd mystery volume 2
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return....
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"In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a request from a retired actor. His friend, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. What starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the old theater. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries, and betrayals. Mrs. Rodd will need all her investigatory...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he took to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. Since...
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