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It is New Year's day, 1900, when the brilliant violinist Sebastian Cavendish is found dead. The last few days of his life are a mystery, but in the final hours of 1899 he wrote a cryptic suicide note mentioning a "cursed inheritance", took poison, an...
CONTENTS.CHAP. PAGEI. PITILESS 7II. THE WEDDING-DAY 13III. THE LOST BROOCH 22IV. ROYAL CHILDREN 32V. A FEW SHIRTS 41VI. A LODGER 49VII. THE EMPTY PAN 60VIII. GONE 70IX. MEG'S TEA-PARTY 84X. TURNING A NEW LEAF 97XI. A MIDNIGHT BARGAIN 108XII. INASMUC...
On a balmy summer in 1898 Vanessa Wetherburn is contentedly feeding a clotted cream scone to her young son in her Cambridge garden when she is startled by the abrupt arrival of her long-time friend, the journalist Patrick O'Sullivan. Eager to discove...
March, 1896. Motherhood and work as a private detective don't easily go hand-in-hand, but Vanessa is determined to give it a try. Being a wife and mother has meant that she's had to give up her beloved teaching job, but Vanessa has been kept busy by ...
Vanessa Duncan's was a country girl fascinated with academia but unable to attend university, so when she moved to Cambridge, she became a schoolmistress. All appeared to be going well . . . until a man she had befriended, Arthur Weatherburn, was acc...
Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan is a young schoolmistress recently arrived from the countryside. She loves teaching and finds the world of academia fascinating; everything is going so well. But everything changes when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr...
Louise felt confused by the struggle Why was Roland Winterhaven so determined to spoil her chance to establish herself as a portrait painter? Each time Lady Amber Winterhaven commissioned Louise to paint her children, Roland quickly countermanded ...