Download or read book Dirty Butter For Servants written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1833. William IV and the country stand upon the edge of the greatest changes ever known, at the end of old rural England. Mr Hobshaw, a retired diplomat and squire of Underscar in the Yorkshire dales, has suddenly remarried; his new wife has a strong head for business but is also a miser. Mrs Hobshaw has four ageing captive daughters, and her servants are slaves. The atmosphere is soon too much for her husband, who leaves the house to reside across the stable yard with his groom, Sheffield. And it is from there that this gothic drama unfolds ... 'You will read on compulsively' Sunday Times

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Download or read book Kill or Cure written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Fisher is a smart doctor in what he calls the 'Jag belt, south of London'. His friends are rich, drink too much and call one another Bunny. If a young unmarried girl has to have an abortion, it is smoothly hushed up - unless she has one at cut-price rate and dies. To oblige a friend, Jeremy Fisher agrees to keep quiet about the girl lying dead in his spare bedroom. But a blackmailer gets to work and Jeremy is exposed as a victim of malicious revenge. 'Keeps you riveted all the way' Observer 'Pace, drama, scalpel-like observation' The Times

Download or read book To Make an Underworld written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Escrick, the former chairman of the family firm, decides to disappear because the company is being taken over, he retires early, changes his name and sets off for Cornwall, accompanied by his dog Banjo. His wife won't notice he's gone, and he's had a house built for him in preparation. But there is a young woman waiting for him there, locked in a bathroom and claiming to have been raped, and the locals take her part against the newcomer. Then she is found murdered, and reality starts closing in on the retreat Robert has escaped to ...

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Download or read book In the Red written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years as a bank clerk, Leslie Williams can stand the daily round no longer. He plans a crime - nothing very heinous, nothing more than a little dishonesty and a lot of unkindness. Yet, once he has made the first fatal move, he finds himself gathered into a fantastic web of adventure, mischance and danger. The story takes place in London: the seedy hotel in Cromwell Road and the open-air market where he finds work as a salesman. And Leslie Williams is a man who has broken loose, who doesn't know quite what dangers are hunting him from the past, or what sense can be made of the present or future ... 'Imaginative, lively and picaresque' Maurice Richardson

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Download or read book You Won t Let Me Finnish written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hector, which proves to be his name, comes to Helsinki, Finland, he's lost an ear and his memory. He turns up at the door of the embassy with a satchel full of money. The Ambassador, his secretary, a girl called Dolly Darling and an old man called Uncle Vanya try to put him together again, and in doing so find themselves in the centre of a strange adventure. 'Rich and strange, swimming with odd characters, alive with curious adventures' The Times

Download or read book The Chill and the Kill written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young girl is struck by a car she begins to have prescient visions of death and clairvoyant knowledge. One of those visions is of a murder. The murder victim is a local woman suspected of having had several affairs despite the intense scrutiny by private detectives employed by her often traveling husband. The chief suspect is a young man with a chequered reputation. He has recently returned under unexplained circumstances from an assignment in South America, where he became involved with a married woman who mysteriously committed suicide ... 'The farthest out mystery of the year' Sunday Times

Download or read book Screams From a Penny Dreadful written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mr Stanroyd is found hanged in his own mill, his three young daughters are forced to realise that they are now mill-owners, a position quite unbecoming to a Victorian young lady. The eldest, the enchanting and redoubtable Severel, confides her hopes and fears - and the strange course of events - to her diary. Who killed whom? Which of the three girls married? Which of them was so shocked that she was deprived of speech? What happened to Uncle Eli and to raffish Cousin Bertie from Australia? Who was raped by whom? And who hanged dear Papa? 'Very rumbustious and buoyant' Scotsman

Download or read book A Daisy Chain for Satan written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Tom Ravensden comes from Paris to the small riverside town of Evening to live near his only relative, Silas Ravensden, and it soon becomes apparent that the marriage of this beloved nephew is far from being ideal. Silas's exceptionally beautiful wife Sigtuna is something of an enigma. She has already had two husbands, and when her wealthy, crippled father dies suddenly Ravensden's suspicions are aroused.