Lady Marmalade's first mystery. Visiting some friends, Lordy and Lady Apleby turns out to be a dangerous affair. For the kitchen maid at least, who ends up dead.How did she die and who would want to kill her is up to Lady Marmalade and Inspector Devlin Pearce to determine. Making their work even harder are the five suspects who all had reason to kill her.The Lord of the manner who was having an affair with her. The Lady who was upset at her cheating husband. Her bastard son...

Three seemingly disparate events might have a connection and it’ll be up to Frances, Great Britain’s best female sleuth to solve that riddle.In 1910 a botched burglary of a jewelry store in East London leads to the Houndsditch Murders. A group of Eastern European anarchists headed by a George Gardstein are caught as they’re just about to break into the jewelry store. In the milieu that follows, three British bobbies are murdered as the gang of anarchists escape. The Siege of Sidney...

This short piece of flash fiction was inspired by one of the opening sentences from a competition that Chuck Wendig of terribleminds.com recently put up. He's a great author by the way, and you should read everything he writes.What happens when you try to out hustler a bigger hustler? Bad things can happen. But when the money is large, like $60k large, you're gonna get folks who think they can win it in a quick game of poker.But the mob thinks otherwise. They might 'pretend...

Money ain’t nothing if you’ve got a lot of it. But then again, a lot of money won’t necessarily buy happiness either. In this Anthony Carrick mystery, hard boiled detective Anthony Carrick is asked to solve the murder of a rich dame’s son. Police think it’s an accidental death, but could it be something more sinister?From the moneyed streets of Mulholland Drive to the trashy trailer park home of white trash Goths, Anthony’s quest takes him into the dark underbelly of humanity’s see...

MIsery's Company is Lady Marmalade's fourth mystery.In Misery's Company, Lady Marmalade is having a few guests over for dinner and company at her 'cottage' called Avalon at Ambleside in the picturesque Lake District.Sir Anthony Gibbons is a teller of engaging tall tales. A retired surgeon who was friend to both Lady Marmalade and her husband Eric, Sir Tony regales the dinner guests with a true story of a murder most foul in Australia.Lady Marmalade's good friend Jan...

In 1946 Lady Marmalade is visiting her friend Flo in Puddle’s End for some much needed rest after the chaos of the Second World War. Florence has other ideas and encourages Lady Marmalade to help her solve an unsolved murder of the church Deacon from 1929.But as they unravel the thread of this murder it leads them to some unsavory discoveries about current day Puddle’s End. The idyllic hamlet is hiding some dark secrets. And it would appear that somebody wants those secrets to rema...

Beggar's Pardon is the first novel length Lady Marmalade Mystery.Lady Marmalade is traveling up to Puddle's End to visit an old school friend, Florence Hudnall. She's heading up to share her famous marmalade recipe with her and to enjoy some much relaxed time.While in Puddle's End, Lady Marmalade and Florence are invited to one of Florence's friend's home for dinner. Ginnie Forsyth is a sweet and caring woman, with a big heart and kind spirit. So it comes as a terrible shoc...

It's 1942 and the war still rages on. Lady Marmalade is staying in London against the advice of her son and her butler. It's too dangerous with Germany's ongoing air raids, but she won't have it any other way.And that's a good thing to, for a neighbor, Ms. Margaret Hollingsberry needs Lady Marmalade's help. She's been getting these awfully upsetting letters that promise vengeance for the sins of the father.But time is running out. Lady Marmalade has less than a week to disc...

Four Red Diamonds Contains the First 4 Lady Marmalade Mysteries:Poisoned HeartLady Marmalade's first mystery. Visiting some friends, Lordy and Lady Apleby turns out to be a dangerous affair. For the kitchen maid at least, who ends up dead.How did she die and who would want to kill her is up to Lady Marmalade and Inspector Devlin Pearce to determine. Making their work even harder are the five suspects who all had reason to kill her.The Lord o...

Lady Marmalade is invited to a lecture that Mahatma Gandhi is giving at Abbot House where all proceeds are going to the children's orphanage located there. What she ins't expecting is to be the witness to a murder of one of Gandhi's closest allies.The problem is, she didn't exactly see who did it, but she's determined to corral the murderer and to see justice served. This murder could turn into a blight upon the already strained relations between Britain and India while the Round T...

Frances is taking her dear friend, Florence Hudnall on a four week holiday through Egypt to explore the ancient secrets that she holds. It has been a life long dream of hers.But when they arrive in Cairo things start to go terribly wrong. Albert and Abigail are bickering over returning stolen treasures, and the rest of the guests are not all that they seem to be.One murder might be explained by the curse of the pharaohs, but when two more bodies turn up dead, there can only...

Frances is involved in her very first case as a young woman of 17. At the turn of the twentieth century, Mr. Chamberlain’s housekeeper, Mrs. Buckham, at his London home is charged and convicted of murdering his personal secretary, Mr. Sefton.In her final year at St. Mary’s all girls shool, Frances, with her best friend Florence, is reading The Observer at a tea room and learning about the miscarriage of justice and the lazy police work that led to Mrs. Buckham’s conviction....