Death at Devil's Bridge: Victorian Mysteries, Book 4

by Robin Paige, Susan Wittig Albert, Helen Johns (Narrator)

Newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan host an auto exhibition at Kate's ancestral home that's attended by Europe's foremost investors and inventors. But competition, speed, and money—more explosive than gasoline—are deadly for one auto builder! Now the amateur sleuths must unravel the mystery before the carnage spreads...

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Published February 21, 2023

About the author

Robin Paige is the pen-name of husband and wife team Bill and Susan Wittig Albert.

The Robin Paige Victorian/Edwardian mystery series was written by Bill and Susan Albert from 1994-2006. There are a dozen books in the series (now completed), beginning in the mid 1890s and continuing through 1903.

The series, beginning with Death at Bishop's Keep, features two amateur sleuths: Kate Ardleigh Sheridan and Sir Charles Sheridan, later Lord Sheridan , Baron of Somersworth. Kate is an Irish-American woman who writes under the pseudonym of Beryl Bardwell.

She comes to England and inherits a small fortune and the estate of Bishops Keep, located in East Anglia, near the village of Dedham, Essex. Sir Charles is a landed peer and amateur scientist with a special interest in new forensic techniques, such as fingerprinting, ballistics, toxicology, and photography.

In each of the 12 books in the series, Kate and Charles meet notable figures of their time as they set about solving the relevant mystery.

Reviews

[Tamasine Wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

I began this book which was acquired as a brown bag ‘mystery book’ from a local bookstore after finishing some really excellent books!! Knowing why I have it definitely tainted my outlook…but I was pleasantly surprised to find in was easy reading and full of fun facts about early days of motor vehicles, society norms, little bit of witchcraft, and the emergence of early investigative forensics. Pretty quick read with no huge surprises but a ‘fun’ short book between heavier genres!