Mrs Jeffries On The Trail
By (Author) Emily Brightwell
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
5th March 2015
5th March 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
256
Width 106mm, Height 176mm, Spine 22mm
150g
With London s streets deserted, a young flower girl is murdered. But why was she out so late on the foggiest night of the year The inspector has no where to even begin looking for a suspect. However Mrs. Jeffries, his housekeeper, is even more accomplished at detection than she is at household management.
This charming series of Victorian murder mysteries features mild-mannered Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard and, more importantly, Mrs Jeffries, his housekeeper. A policeman's widow herself, her quick wits allow her to nudge the Inspector in the right direction to solve the crime.It's murder most English all the way! - The Literary Times
Having married an Englishman in 1976, Cheryl Arguile lived near London for a while before moving back to California, where she had been brought up. She then decided to embark on a writing career first as a romantic novelist (Sarah Temple) and later writing for young adults (Cheryl Lanham) but is best known as Emily Brightwell for the Mrs Jeffries series.