Mystery of Dora Wildwood: Dorothy L. Sayers meets Enola Holmes - say hello to historical crime's brilliant new heroine!

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The launch of a brilliant historical crime series that marries the quality of Dorothy L. Sayers with the ingenuity of Janice Hallett - and in Dora Wildwood introduces a character with the spark and gusto of Enola Holmes and the detective skill of Miss Marple.

Dora Wildwood is escaping a most unsuitable marriage. She's on the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house on the milk cart. She plans to go straight to her godmother Lady Dreda Uglow, the only woman she knows who seems to live life on her own terms, and ask to stay.

As she alights at Paddington station it seems her dreams are in touching distance. Until she hears a shout behind her and her fiance snatches her from the crowd. As tries to outrun the loathsome Charles, she ducks into the London Library to hide, asking the kindly Ben Stark and the clever Miss Amani to help her in the process - and stumbles across her first dead body ...

And having been thrown into the middle of a murder scene, it's now impossible to walk away. Indeed, Dora's certain she will prove an invaluable help to the gruff Detective Inspector Fox who swiftly arrives on the scene. For as everyone knows, it's the woman in the room who always sees more than anyone else...

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Harriet F. Townson is the pen name of bestselling author Harriet Evans. She has written thirteen novels, several of which have been Sunday Times bestsellers, two of which were Richard and Judy Book Club selections and one which won the Good Housekeeping Book of the Year. She lives in Bath with her family and in her scant spare time rereads Dorothy L Sayers.