Murder on the Rocks (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery #13)

Murder on the Rocks (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery #13)

Author: T E Kinsey Listening Length: 8h 11m
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February 1913. Lady Hardcastle and her diminutive but brave lady’s maid, Flo, have been invited by their friend JB McIntyre to spend the weekend at his recently renovated Tudor fort on a remote island off the Devonshire coast. But the holiday quickly turns sinister when first a number of valuable jewels go missing—an...

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Time passed pleasantly, and by five o’clock there was still no one in the library.

We’d brought fresh cups of tea from the sitting room and made ourselves comfortable in our favourite chairs.

The day’s main meal had been Peggy Crawford’s spectacular Sunday roast so supper was to be light, and much later. No recital was planned.

All of which meant that there was no urgent need to change, and no need to work ourselves into the right frame of mind to be sparkling company at cocktails. But it also meant that the evening sprawled intimidatingly ahead of us with no routine to fill it.