Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart have an engagement of convenience to keep her from India and failed debutantes. She befriends newly arrived Miss Dolly Tremaine, stabbed to death and floati…
Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined---long hou…
When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful -- if rebellious -- Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart,…
Elderly widow Lady Fortescue must escape genteel poverty. If each of five geriatrics relieve a rich relative of a costly trifle, they can turn her house into a hotel for the ton. Her nephew, Duke of R…
Lady Rose Summer is a wayward Edwardian debutante. Her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only to stop her parents shipping her to India for a husband. But curvy seductive Frenc…
Sir Philip Somerville "elderly tortoise" brings fat vulgar greedy mistress Mrs Budge into Poor Relation Hotel against wishes of owner elegant Lady Amelia Fortescue 70s and partners Colonel Sandhurst 7…
Six genteel seniors raise funds for their fashionable Poor Relation hotel by sending spinster Miss Letitia Tonks to rob her selfish sister of a sparkling necklace and tiara. But dashing Lord Eston don…
With the inhabitants of the Poor Relation Hotel requiring more money, pretty dainty widow Lucy Budley is sent to convince a rich, senile, old Marquess that she is a relative. But the handsome Marquess…
Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre Armitage is determined to marry for love, rejecting the choice of their hunt-happy vicar father. Lord Harry Desire is well-bred, good-looking - and rich. Deirdre contrive…
Colonel Sandhurst 70s, an owner of popular Poor Relations Hotel, fears calling in debt owed by Sir Randolph Gray. Sandhurst offers Gray daughter, fetching Frederica 17, refuge from marriage with hefty…
The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a town council meeting. When traces of aconite―also known as the queen of poisons―are f…
The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London, its guests are paying hard cash, and its owners are preparing to sell up and return to a life of quality. But one last romantic adventure awaits them.
Miss Hannah Pym 45 retires from housekeeping to ride the 1800 stagecoach, first to Exeter. Spoiled beauty Emily flees marriage to older Lord Ranger Harley 33. Widow Lizzie Bisley regrets engagement to…
It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Club – since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of …
Daphne Armitage, exquisite black-haired beauty of six sisters, intends to avoid the turmoil of true love by demanding nothing more of a husband than to be an elegant companion. The self-absorbed Mr Ar…
