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Title details for Murder at an English Séance by Jessica Ellicott - Available

Murder at an English Séance

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by Jessica Ellicott
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American adventuress Beryl Halliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport team up once again as enquiry agents to investigate a suspicious psychic in this historical English village mystery set just after World War I.
Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she's finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz.

Beryl's aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances. After the church organist resigns to serve as musical accompaniment for the séances, the vicar's wife hires the enquiry agents to expose the medium as a charlatan. Beryl is confident she can spot the fraud, having learned from Harry Houdini himself some tricks of the trade. The dubious Miss Dinsdale claims her spirit guide is an Egyptian princess whose mummy resides in a sarcophagus in the room. But the only body in the sarcophagus belongs to a murdered villager impaled with a dagger.

As the sleuths begin to investigate, Beryl discovers her plane has been sabotaged and wonders if there's a connection. Whether in the air or on terra firma, Beryl and Edwina must go round a circle of suspects to divine the culprit . . .

  • Creators

  • Series

    Beryl and Edwina Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 25, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781496740175

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781496740175
      • File size: 472 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2024
      The medium is definitely not the message when private enquiry agents Edwina Davenport and Beryl Helliwell probe a murder at a s�ance in post-World War I England. Looking back over the past year, Edwina can hardly believe all the changes to her life since she reluctantly invited American adventurer Beryl to share her home at The Beeches, a gracious but costly Victorian house in the small village of Walmsley Parva. Never would she have imagined that she'd learn to drive, write a book, open her home to her former gardener, or start a detective agency with her brave but impulsive housemate. Even police constable Doris Gibbs admits that the pair have a knack for resolving their fellow villagers' dilemmas. When Muriel Lowethorpe, the vicar's wife, asks them to persuade organist Hazel Moffat to stop providing music at Maude Dinsdale's s�ances, they agree that working with a medium is not an appropriate side hustle for a church musician. But when Hazel turns up dead in Maude's spirit guide's sarcophagus, it's PC Gibbs who solicits the private investigators' help. Gibbs knows that together, conventional Ed and unconventional Beryl have their fingers squarely on Walmsley Parva's collective pulse. Not even Maude's second sight can predict the ways their foray into the world beyond will rock their own world, leading to an even greater expansion of The Beeches' bespoke extended family. Ellicott helps her characters grow as they become ever more their true and endearing selves.

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  • English

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