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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Following the devastation of the Great War, England's noble class takes comfort in honoring tradition. To celebrate their grandparents' wedding anniversary, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her siblings travel to Staffordshire to commission a china service bearing the Wroxly coat of arms from the venerated Crown Lily Potteries, a favorite of Queen Mary. The two leading designers at the illustrious china manufacturer offer competing patterns. But when one...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
To avoid a terrible miscarriage of justice, Mrs. Jeffries must help someone she'd hoped never to see again solve the murder of the Sutcliffe Manufacturing general office manager, a man many hated.
71) The lady's maid
Author
Series
Prairie dreams volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
318 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne, are searching for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, the greenhorns secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train. Will the ladies succeed in their quest or succumb to the malfeasance of the mysterious man dogging their heels?
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In this winning historical romance, a woman pretends to be a servant to a handsome earl, and soon finds herself falling for him. Emily cannot reveal the secret of her true identity, and so she hides under the guise of a handmaiden. The earl is busy seeking an appropriate wife for himself, but can't help but feel desire for the mysterious servant girl who waits on him hand and foot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful newcomer is found dead in the communal gardens, Inspector Witherspoon narrows down his list of suspects to Lucius Montague, who was seen threatening the woman, but Mrs. Jeffries has her doubts and sets out to find the real killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Train enthusiast Francis Humphreys took his last breath while relatives and neighbors visited downstairs. But if everyone was downstairs, who could have stolen into Uncle Francis's study, killed him, and escaped? Mrs. Jeffries will have to lend her downstairs common sense to this upstairs murder mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
499 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone's awed by Inspector Witherspoon's Scotland Yard successes, but they don't know about his secret weapon. Her name is Mrs. Jeffries, and she keeps house for the Inspector and keeps him on his toes. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, her polished detection skills are up to the task. Because as she knows all too well, a crime solvers work is never done.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, step outside of their social roles and put their lives at risk to apprehend a vicious killer. December 1918: As a difficult year draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old Phoebe Renshaw and her three siblings at their beloved family estate of Foxwood Hall. The dreadful war is finally over; eldest daughter Julia's engagement to their houseguest,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Witherspoon's housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, must once again employ her keen skills of detection when Lawrence Boyd, a banker with numerous enemies, is found dead in his burnt-out studio and all signs point to murder.
Author
Series
Fairy tale fatal volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm. 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From innocent chambermaid-to the Sheikh's pregnant queen! The last thing sensible maid Hannah Wilson expects is to be whisked off to a glamorous party by Sheikh Kulal Al Diya. Their intense chemistry and searing kiss lead to the most amazing night of her life - with the most shocking consequences! Now Kulal will do anything to claim his heir. Even if it means making Hannah his desert queen!
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