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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Edwina is well-known in her neighborhood, she plays with kids, she bakes delicious chocolate chip cookies and helps old ladies cross the street. She is well-loved by everyone except for one person: Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie. He knows for a fact that dinosaurs are extinct and tries to convince everyone that they are. What happens when Edwina finds out?
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Private investigators Beryl and Edwina are hired by a member of the upper class to investigate an affair, but when a painter, the suspect in the case, is found murdered in a nearby glade, Beryl and Edwina wonder if not more complex motives are in play.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay... The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of Walmsley Parva hits rather too close to home--in fact, the prime suspect has taken up residence in Edwina's potting shed. Her elderly gardener Simpkins has been secretly...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Beryl Helliwell cited for 'reckless' motoring? Why, the very idea! Constable Gibbs just has it in for her. The solution? Charm the magistrate, of course. Beryl and Edwina pay a visit to the magistrate only to find his home ransacked and the man himself lying dead at the bottom of a grand staircase. Declan O'Shea, who assists Beryl's aged gardener Simpkins, falls under suspicion after having had his own run-in with the magistrate - mostly, Beryl believes,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Ellicott's captivating second mystery set in post-WWI England (after 2017's Murder in an English Village), adventure-seeking American Beryl Helliwell and her old English school chum, Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, calls on them for help in a matter that requires sensitivity and discretion. One of the...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Don't let the pigeon stay up late: One stubborn pigeon is not going to bed -- Knuffle Bunny free: Trixie and her family set off to visit her grandparents, but Knuffle Bunny has other ideas -- Edwina: Everyone loves Edwina except for a know-it-all who tries to convince everyone that dinosaurs are extinct.
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