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Patricia Wentworth
Full Series List in Order
A Benbow Smith Mystery
1 - Fool Errant ()2 - Danger Calling ()
3 - Walk with Care ()
4 - Down Under ()
An Ernest Lamb Mystery
1 - The Blind Side (1939)2 - Who Pays the Piper? ()
3 - Pursuit of a Parcel ()
A Frank Garrett Mystery
1 - Dead or Alive ()2 - Rolling Stone ()
A Miss Silver Mystery
1 - Grey Mask (1928)2 - Case Is Closed (1937)
3 - Lonesome Road (1939)
4 - In the Balance (1941)
5 - The Chinese Shawl (1943)
6 - Miss Silver Deals With Death // Miss Silver Intervenes (1944)
7 - Clock Strikes Twelve (1944)
8 - The Key (1944)
9 - She Came Back // The Traveller Returns (1945)
10 - Pilgrim's Rest (1946)
11 - Latter End (1947)
12 - Wicked Uncle // Spotlight (1947)
13 - Eternity Ring (1948)
14 - The Case of William Smith (1948)
15 - Miss Silver Comes to Stay (1949)
16 - The Catherine Wheel (1949)
17 - The Brading Collection (1950)
18 - Through the Wall (1950)
19 - The Ivory Dagger (1950)
20 - Anna, Where Are You? (1951)
21 - The Watersplash (1951)
22 - Ladies' Bane (1952)
23 - Out of the Past (1953)
24 - The Vanishing Point (1953)
25 - The Silent Pool (1953)
26 - The Benevent Treasure (1954)
27 - The Gazebo (1955)
28 - The Listening Eye (1955)
29 - The Fingerprint (1956)
30 - Poison in the Pen (1957)
31 - The Alington Inheritance (1958)
32 - Girl in the Cellar (1961)
Book List in Order: 60 titles
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Beggar's Choice
- 1931
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Car Fairfax had hit rock bottom. First, he was rejected for a job because his shoes were worn out. Next, he ran into Isobel, whom he had not seen for three lovelorn years. Finally, a stranger handed him a printed flyer that read: "Do you want to make...
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Case Is Closed
- 1937
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The Everton case was closed. Geoffrey Grey had already spent a year in prison for the murder of his uncle. And the evidence had been so damning that even his wife Marion had doubted his word. But that was before her cousin Hilary ran into Everton'...
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Lonesome Road
- 1939
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will -- and decide who will inherit her late father's vast wealth. But this year, things are just a little bit different: somebody clearly wants her to die. "You have had that money long enough...
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The Blind Side
- 1939
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Craddock House was so full of squabblers, gossips,.-feuding family, and eavesdroppers that Ross Craddock's killer must have felt quite at home. There was Lee Fenton, Ross's first cousin, heard calling Ross "a swine" and subsequently sleepwalking (so ...
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In the Balance
- 1941
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Miss Silver attempts to save a young girl from her murderous husband Maud Silver, demure private eye, hardly has time to finish one adventure before another demands her attention. She is making her way back to London when, with a terrible jerk, her ...
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The Chinese Shawl
- 1943
- / Amateur Sleuth
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At twenty-one, Laura Fane comes into her inheritance and travels to war-torn London to meet with her solicitors. There she is introduced to her lovely, charming, yet poisonous cousin Tanis Lyle who invites her to the Fane family estate, The Priory, f...
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Clock Strikes Twelve
- 1944
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Elderly patriarch James Paradine is murdered on New Year's Eve after confronting a relative and demanding a confession, and the redoubtable Miss Maud Silver is charged with identifying a killer among several suspects. Reissue....
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Miss Silver Deals With Death // Miss Silver Intervenes
- 1944
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties and war work to fill her days. A chance encount...
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She Came Back // The Traveller Returns
- 1945
- / Amateur Sleuth
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MISS SILVER INVESTIGATES... Anne Jocelyn came back from the dead. Her husband Philip says he carried her off the beach at Breton, shot in the head by a German bullet, and he buried her in Holt churchyard. Now with the war almost over, the bombing st...
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Pilgrim's Rest
- 1946
- / Amateur Sleuth
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They call it Pilgrim's Rest, but only the dead rest here. The scene of so many strange accidents that the house seems almost haunted, Pilgrim's Rest is now home for: lovely Judy Elliot and her young niece, the two eccentric Miss Pilgrims, Cousin Roge...
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Latter End
- 1947
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows which Lois, needless to say, invariably won. More than one person at Latter End found themselves s...
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Wicked Uncle // Spotlight
- 1947
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Gregory Porlock had brought them together... the dithering Mrs. Oakley and her rich businessman husband ... nouveau riche Mr. and Mrs. Tote, still uncomfortable hobnobbing with the hoity-toity... the Mastermans, a brother and sister raised above gent...
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The Case of William Smith
- 1948
- / Amateur Sleuth
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For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one expected him to find the answer. When William is mysteriously attacked in the street, Miss Silve...
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Eternity Ring
- 1948
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Detective Sergeant Frank Abbott asks Miss Maud Silver for help when Mary Stokes reports having witnessed the murder of a woman wearing unusual earrings in the "eternity ring" pattern, but no one can find the body...
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The Catherine Wheel
- 1949
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Love brought her to the eerie old inn-- TERROR MADE HER STAY FAMILY SECRET Dark passages...hidden rooms...untold treasure. It was all part of the family legend, stories told and retold so often that no one knew where fiction stopped and fact ...
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Miss Silver Comes to Stay
- 1949
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the suspects are almost too numerous to count. From the jilted...
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The Brading Collection
- 1950
- / Amateur Sleuth
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REUNION WITH TERROR Stacey Mainwaring thought she had escaped - from the man she had once loved, and the marriage that had become a chill revelation of evil. But she had returned to the place of horror, and now there was no escape. Not from the ...
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The Ivory Dagger
- 1950
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When Lila Dryden is discovered standing over the dead body of her irritating fiance with a dagger in her hand, Miss Silver is called in to investigate. What her patience and particular genius uncover is Lila's talent for sleepwalking, the return of h...
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Through the Wall
- 1950
- / Amateur Sleuth
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MISS SILVER INVESTIGATES Lying lifeless at the bottom of a jagged cliff, Helen Adrian made a ghastly sight. The clues clearly suggested she had not simply misstepped -- Helen Adrian had been pushed! But who would want to murder such an enchanting yo...
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Anna, Where Are You?
- 1951
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A young governess named Anna Ball is missing, and her friend Thomasina Elliot hires Miss Silver to investigate. Miss Silver assumes the position left vacant by Anna, tending to the three Craddock children at Deepe House in Deepe End in Lincolnshire. ...
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The Watersplash
- 1951
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Typically, Miss Silver came into the Greenings affair in the most casual manner, with the innocent desire to do no more than match some wool for her niece. All too soon she found herself immersed in a furiously perplexing case of blackmail, jealousy,...
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Ladies' Bane
- 1952
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Immediately on her arrival at Ladies' lone, Muir realizes that all is not right with her newly married sister, Allegra. The town of Bleake is charming, but the medieval manor house itself - known by a sinister local legend as Ladies' Bane - is full o...
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Out of the Past
- 1953
- / Amateur Sleuth
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James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea. The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, destroys th...
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The Silent Pool
- 1953
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Another case for Miss Silver - sock-knitting sleuth extraordinaireAdriana Ford, a former actress, has always enjoyed being the focus of attention. Until, that is, that focus seems to be centred on hastening her death. First she felt herself being pus...
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The Vanishing Point
- 1953
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Nothing much ever seemed to happen in the sleepy village of Hazel Green apart from the occasional tea party, spiced with local gossip. Until Maggie Bell went out one evening for a breath of fresh air and never came back. Could Maggie's disappearance ...
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The Benevent Treasure
- 1954
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Somewhere among the dust and cobwebs of the Benevent family home lies hidden the legendary Benevent treasure. But a terrible death has been prophesied for all who dare to uncover it. When she first arrives to stay with her two elderly maiden aunts...
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The Gazebo
- 1955
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visits the gazebo--yet she is found dead in it one morning. The Graham estate had once enjoyed a rural view, but now the grounds are part of suburban London and the gazebo is an anachronistic summerhous...
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The Listening Eye
- 1955
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Miss Silver paid close attention to the strange tale of sensible, middle-aged Miss Paulina Paine. Though totally deaf, Miss Paine could lip-read so well that strangers never suspected her handicap--or guessed she could eavesdrop with uncanny accuracy...
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The Fingerprint
- 1956
- / Amateur Sleuth
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It was an unenchanted evening for Georgina Grey. First came her discovery of her once beloved, now quite dead Uncle Jonathan. Then when she picked up the murder revolver, out of shocked but ill-placed curiosity, her doom was all but sealed. The fact ...
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Poison in the Pen
- 1957
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Lovers meet, kiss--and someone is going to tell. A poison pen is busy scribbling billets-doux in rustic Tilling Green ... until murder becomes more effective than malice. One lethal letter leads to a body in Manor House lake. At the house, heiress Va...
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The Alington Inheritance
- 1958
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Death in the Dark In one dreadful night, pretty Jenny Hill found that she was the rightful owner of the wealthy Alington estate--and that her aunt and cousin were plotting to see that she never claimed her rights! Panicked, she fled--into the a...
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Girl in the Cellar
- 1961
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A witness who remembers nothing is in mortal danger.A young woman regains consciousness and finds herself on some cellar steps. At the bottom of the steps there is the corpse of a dead girl. She cannot remember who she is, what has happened or why sh...
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The Black Cabinet
Chloe Dane inherits a fabled ancestral estate -- and plunges into deadly danger -- in this novel of romance and suspense from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries The lowly assistant to a London dressmaker, Chloe Dane yearns for a...
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Blindfold
An elegant English townhouse conceals a viper’s nest of greed and evil in this riveting tale of romantic suspense from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Flossie Palmer is in the drawing room of No. 16 Varley Street pretending to be som...
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Fear by Night
“Are you sure? Don’t I inherit anything?”
“Not unless something happens to Miss Ann Vernon.”
Ann Vernon won’t marry her boyfriend Charles Anstruther, opting instead to become secretary to an old lady. She accompanies Mrs Ha...
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Kingdom Lost
When she had let down her case, she locked her bedroom door. And then she put out the light and climbed out of the window.
Marooned as a baby, Valentine Ryven has been on a deserted South Sea island for twenty years, before she is rescued an...
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A Marriage Under The Terror
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Silence In Court
Someone wanted her to HANG! Carey Silence stood in court charged with a murder she knew she had not done. Somewhere a killer was at large…someone who had quietly poisoned an old woman to prevent a shocking secret from becoming known…and to sto...
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The Amazing Chance
Ten years! He had been dead ten years!
Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero. For three mad, ecstatic days early in the Great War, Evelyn had been engaged to Jack. Then ...
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The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and... murder. The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia...
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Danger Calling
“How would you like to die for your country?” asked Benbow Smith languidly.
Now that Marian has broken their engagement, Lindsay Trevor finds danger welcome, even though it means dyeing his hair red and impersonating his cousin Froth as...
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Dead or Alive
Meg leaned forward suddenly. There was a note of terror in her voice. "Bill--where--is--Robin?" Robin O'Hara never deserved his wife, Meg. He was unfaithful and involved in work that was just a little bit dangerous. When Meg reaches her limits and wa...
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The Devil's Wind
A thrilling tale of love, adventure, and survival during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 by the creator of the iconic Miss Silver Helen Wilmot, a resourceful and loyal young woman, journeys to India to live with her widower father and Adela Lauriston, her ...
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Down Under
Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disappearance of a bride-to-be -- the latest in a series of bizarre abductions -- in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Rose Anne Carew is to be married tomorrow. Durin...
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Fire Within
"The Fire Within" is the first novel by Patricia Wentworth, the pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles, a British author. Best known for her series of crime fiction novels featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess who becomes a private detective. Wentwort...
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Fool Errant
Political intrigue and industrial espionage are brewing in Britain’s Foreign Office in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful woman. She claims to be running away a...
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Hue and Cry
“I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs…”
Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive from the police. It only happened because she became governess to millionaire Sir George Pe...
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Mr. Zero
A high society house party in the country sets the stage for blackmail, sabotage, illicit passion, and murder in this witty, classic British mystery with a touch of political intrigue The last thing London debutante Gay Hardwicke wants is to b...
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Nothing Venture
A plucky young bride risks it all to save her thick-headed husband from a nefarious plot against his life in this classic British cozy mystery. Jervis Weare is in a predicament. According to Ambrose Weare’s will, his grandson must marry with...
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Outrageous Fortune
Was Jim Randal alive or dead? Caroline Leigh knew he was on the coast steamer to Scotland that capsized in the storm and that some man, muttering the name Jim Randal or "Jimmy Riddell," had been saved. That news on the radio had sent Carolne rushing ...
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Pursuit of a Parcel
Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germans -- until he r...
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Red Shadow
“They are letting me say good-bye. I’m to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this…”
Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the veiled dress she was to have worn as Jim Mackenzie’s bride, and gave her word to marry ...
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Red Stefan
Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this…
Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is about to throw her...
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Rolling Stone
Spike Reilly, member of a gang of picture thieves that has added murder to its nefarious activities, dies suddenly in a hotel room---and Peter Talbot, unofficial operative of the Foreign Office, decides to take his place. Establishing contact with o...
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Walk with Care
“Beware " walk with care,
Or mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you.”Young Jeremy Ware is suspected of stealing important papers, and Colonel Garrett of the Secret Service (last seen in Danger Calling) consults Benbow Smith about it. Even Ro...
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Who Pays the Piper?
“I wouldn’t like to make you really angry, darling. You know, the only time I did you nearly scared me dead. I believe if you were really roused you might do something rather frightful.”
Lucas Dale, new owner of King’s Bourne, was fl...
