A Pippa Darling Mystery — by Jenna Bennett

• Sep-2023
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Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. Benjamin FranklinEngland, late April, 1926When Henry Astley, Duke of Sutherland, turns up dead in bed at the end of an afternoon spent calling his family on the carpet, everyone assumes that the excite...

• Dec-2023
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England, early May, 1926After the funerals of the late Duke of Sutherland and his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, (and of course Grimsby, the blackmailing valet), the younger members of the family—Philippa Darling, her cousins Christopher and Fran...

• Mar-2024
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London, early June, 1926The last Friday of every month, Christopher Astley, in the guise of his alter ego Kitty Dupree, has attended a covert drag ball somewhere in London. In April, the ball was interrupted by a police raid that Christopher escaped ...

• Jun-2024
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England, July 1926Several months ago, in the blackmail notes that Grimsby, the now-dead valet, compiled about everyone in the family, Philippa Darling learned about a young woman with a baby who showed up at Sutherland House in London, looking for th...

• Sep-2024
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England, August, 1926For months now, Pippa's and Christopher's neighbor Florence Schlomsky, the manhunter with the teeth, has been roaming London society looking for an opportunity to trade her father's American fortune for a British title. Both the ...

• Dec-2024
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England, September 1926An engagement party at venerable Marsden Manor serves up annoyances big and small for Bright Young Thing Philippa Darling and her cousins, Christopher and Francis Astley. There's the scheming Lady Laetitia Marsden, now engaged ...

• May-2025
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London, October 1926Someone is out to get Pippa Darling. Or perhaps not. The tumble down the stairs into the underground involved a lot of people, all of whom said someone pushed them, and all of whom, no doubt, had wronged someone, somehow, at some ...

• Dec-2025
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Wiltshire, November 1926Six months ago, Grimsby the valet dug up dirt on everyone in the family at the behest of his employer, Henry, Duke of Sutherland. During a memorable weekend at Sutherland Hall, Grimsby was killed for it. So was Henry, while th...

• May-2026
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