Victorian House

Enjoy three stories of romance, mystery, and the magic of Christmas! THE OXFORD STREET COFFEE HOUSE DETECTIVES Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities--for they moonlight as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. THE ROOKS OF MISSELTHWAITE - PART 1: IN THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN Lilias Lennox and her sister Evelia have lost everything. Their parents are dead, their brother is serving in India, and now their sole ...

Venice, 1880. Alexander, Viscount Dundarran, seeks refuge from scandal amidst the fading grandeur of crumbling palazzos during the infamous Carnival in the city. There he encounters the enigmatic Lady Arabella Pembrook—a young, beautiful widow. Both are scarred by their pasts but find solace in each other and a chance at redemption. But when duty calls Alexander back to England upon his father's death, a darker journey begins.

It is 1859, and the son of an infamous fraudster enters the London home of a wealthy industrialist and his daughter. Before long, passions flare, three people have gone missing, and the work of a rising novelist has been abruptly stopped. A reputation is in ruins, and a fortune will be lost.

• Modern-reader adaptation of Dickens's legal saga • Clearer contemporary language with plot and voice preserved • Clean chapter navigation for students and returning readers Fog-bound London, the endless case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, and a society warped by wealth, secrecy, and delay come into sharp focus in this accessible edition. The story follows Esther Summerson as she enters a tangled world of guardians, lawyers, aristocrats, orphans, debtors, and opportunists, while Lady Dedlock's hidden past draws the attention of the relentless Mr. Tulkinghorn. This Adapted for Modern ...

The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

How did Sherlock Holmes get himself into such a situation? His life is threatened. His only escape is to pretend to be catatonic. And in that state, to solve a heinous crime. It began when a barrister came to Holmes and told him that his wife may have disappeared ... or he may have murdered her. He doesn't know. He has catatonic spells, and there are hours of his life he cannot remember. Was his wife's first husband murdered? What went on inside the Bethlem Royal Hospital when the wife, the husband, and the maid were all patients in that famous institution? Sherlock Holmes suspects that the...

The first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery in over a century—written by #1 New York Times bestseller Anthony Horowitz—is filled with international intrigue, dangerous criminals, and stunning feats of deduction from the worlds most famous detective. Once again, The Game's Afoot ... London...

Everfair is a wonderful neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner", King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary utopia for native populations of the Congo, as well as escaped slaves returning from America.

When an engagement of convenience becomes anything but convenient . . . Forced into a betrothal with a widower twice her age, Charleston socialite, Sophia Fairfield is desperate for an escape. But, while her fiancé is away on business, he assigns his handsome stepson, Carver, the task of looking after his bride-to-be. Much to her dismay, Sophia finds herself falling in love with the wrong gentleman—a man society would never allow her to marry, given Sophia was supposed to be his new stepmother. The only way to save Carver from scandal and financial ruin is to run away, leaving him and ...

THE CASE OF THE SINGING GRAVEYARD London, and the fog lies thick over a forgotten graveyard where no one has been buried in twenty years. But something sings there. Night after night, a caretaker at the disused Greychapel Cemetery hears a voice rising from behind locked gates and unclimbed walls — sorrowful, sweet, and utterly without explanation. The newspapers call it THE SINGING DEAD OF GREYCHAPEL. Gravediggers refuse to work. Spiritualists offer their services. And a pale young woman named Charlotte Ashworth arrives at 221B Baker Street carrying a secret she has guarded for six long ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BURNING PORTRAIT A Sherlock Holmes Mystery — by Mark Collins At the stroke of midnight, a two-hundred-year-old portrait bursts into flame — and by morning, its master is dead. For generations, the Ravensworth family has lived beneath the shadow of an ancient curse: a witch's dying promise that when the portrait of Sir Josiah Ravensworth burns, a Ravensworth will not live to see the dawn. When young Edmund Ravensworth watches the legend fulfill itself before his own eyes — and finds his uncle dead the very next morning, his face frozen in inexplicable terror — he...

This box set contains all 5 books in the Pa's Dirty Little Secret series Book 1 I’ve lived with the man who raised me, alone, since my mama died last year. It hasn’t been easy taking over everything around the house and the farm. But staying busy is a good thing, especially since I can hear the way he touches himself, night after night. Being innocent as I am, it causes me to have thoughts I shouldn’t have. I ache for a man’s touch. It shouldn’t surprise me that he wants the closest one to him to replace what he and my mama had. He IS a man with needs, after all. But does he ...

London, 1893: High up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow but burning with questions: Why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? 

Deep in the mountains, secrets grow deadly . . . Senior Constable Sally White knows how easily hikers can go missing in Victoria's High Country. But there's something about the disappearance of Louis Taylor, a young man lost up Mount Viking, that's not sitting right with her. Louis was an...

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak...

Discover a haunting Victorian Gothic tale where family secrets, supernatural terror, and the unbreakable bond between sisters collide in the wild moors of Northumberland... When desperate poverty forces Eliza Harrow to accept a mysterious inheritance from her estranged uncle, she believes her prayers have been answered. Withering House—a remote Gothic manor in the windswept Northumberland countryside—promises refuge from her precarious existence in Victorian London. But the house harbors secrets that stretch back three centuries. Local villagers speak in whispers of lights in empty ...

The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world...

Amateur sleuth Charles Lenox investigates the murder of a Parliament member, moving through the glamorous high society of Victorian London in the next novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch. In the spring of 1881, Lenox is caught up in the whirl of London life when his brother arrives to tell...

This annotated edition of Dickens's Bleak House includes: • An original critical afterword, "The Fog and the System" • On Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, and the machinery of the law • Dickens's dual narrators and the first detective in English fiction • A biographical essay on Charles Dickens and a note on the text A volume in CLASSICS OF WORLD LITERATURE from Erato Press. "Fog everywhere." So begins the greatest of Dickens's novels — fog on the river, fog in the streets, and at the heart of the fog, the High Court of Chancery, where the endless suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has ...

The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by...