Mrs. Jeffries Sallies Forth

Mrs. Jeffries #10-12

by Emily Brightwell

If you like Downton Abbey, you'll love Mrs. Jeffries!

NOW IN ONE VOLUME—THREE VICTORIAN MYSTERIES FEATURING MRS. JEFFRIES

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 crimesolver’s work is never done…

Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Stage
After a theatre critic is murdered, Mrs. Jeffries uncovers the victim’s secret past: a real-life drama more compelling than any stage play...

Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answers
Hannah Cameron was not well-liked. But were her friends or family the sort to stab her in the back? Mrs. Jeffries must really tiptoe around this time—or it could be a matter of life and death...

Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Art
Mrs. Jeffries has to work double-time to find a missing model and a killer. And she’ll have to get her whole staff involved—before someone else becomes the next subject...

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery

502 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Cheryl Lanham was born on 11 October 1948 in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, USA. Her family moved to Southern California in 1959 and she grew up in Pasadena. After graduating from California State University, she decided to work her way around the world and took off for England. She didn’t get much further because she met Richard James Arguile, the Englishman who became her husband, got married on May 1976, and had two children, Matthew and Amanda. While working in international shipping, she decided to pursue her dream and become a writer – which, of course, is the best job ever. She has written romance novels as Sarah Temple, and Young Adult novels as Cheryl Lanham. As Emily Brightwell, she is the author of the “Mrs. Jeffries” mysteries.

Cheryl Lanham Arguile returned to California, where she lives with her husband and a cranky old cat named Kiwi.

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this series of books would make a fantastic tv series

[Georgene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three Mrs. Jefferies novels in one volume:"Mrs. Jefferies Takes the Stage", Mrs. Jefferies Answers the Question" and "Mrs. Jefferies Reveals Her Art".

Fun reading after several serious books.

[Valerie Tate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, as usual. Emily Brightwell is very adept at depicting life above stairs, downstairs and in the poor neighbourhoods of Victorian era London. This is an anthology that includes three of her earlier books.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Three books in one!

[Susan · Rating 1 out of 5]

These have to be some of the most poorly written and edited stories I have ever read. My mother in law gave them to me and because of some OCD type disorder I feel compelled to finish them. No one should read them. Ever. They are full of stock phrases, characters using the wrong accents and phrases, people behaving and talking in ways that real people never would. If one more person says "Cor blimey" I'm going to vomit.
And the editing is terrible. Commas where they don't belong, character names mixed up, missing quotation marks, misspellings. It's awful.

[Katharine Holden · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pleasant, predictable stuff.