Murder at an English Séance

✍ Scribed by Jessica Ellicott

• Book ID: 115203936
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781496740168

✦ Synopsis

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 seances. After the church organist resigns to serve as musical accompaniment for the seances, the vicar's wife hires the enquiry agents to expose the medium as a...