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  • Murder In Hawthorn Road
    Daphne Neville
    Very little is known about the late Nigel Taylor. He lived alone at Number 13, Hawthorn Road and kept himself to himself. When he died, villagers expressed their sadness but there was no-one to mourn. With the festive season upon the village, his passing is soon forgotten. But then early in the New Year, his landlady is found dead, seemingly murdered, inside the house Nigel had...
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  • Death By Hanging Basket
    Daphne Neville
    Super-sleuth-cum-busybody sexagenarian twin sisters Hetty and Lottie are thrilled by the number of summer events taking place in the Cornish seaside village of Pentrillick. The church’s young vicar is getting married, the Crown and Anchor is sold and closed for renovation work, and green fingered residents are polishing their horticultural skills ready for the newly created ’Pe...
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    10,11 €

  • The Old Bakehouse
    Daphne Neville
    There is much idle chatter in the seaside village of Pentrillick, for word has broken that Joseph Percival Williams, the village?s erstwhile baker and oldest inhabitant, is dead.When sexagenarian twin sisters Lottie and Hetty hear the news, Lottie?s first though is that, should it be sold, the Old Bakehouse might be a suitable home for her son, Bill, and his family currently li...
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  • Tea and Broken Biscuits
    Daphne Neville
    There is much excitement in the Cornish seaside village of Pentrillick. Sea View Cottage has been sold to Brett Baker, a playwright of some note and the creator of several popular, television, situation comedies. Consequently, when Brett offers one of his unperformed murder mystery plays to members of the village drama group for their next production, everyone it seems wants to...
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  • The Suitcase in the Attic
    Daphne Neville
    July 2017. Sexagenarian twin sisters, Hetty and Lottie, are very enthusiastic about having their attic converted into living accommodation and anticipate much excitement during the summer months while the work is in progress, especially so when Lottie’s seventeen-year-old grandson, Zac, arrives to stay with them during the school holiday.However, what they have not anticipated ...
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    9,72 €

  • A Pasty In A Pear Tree
    Daphne Neville
    For the second year running, a Christmas Wonderland is taking place in the extensive and beautiful grounds of Pentrillick House in Cornwall, where a small fair, a fortune teller, and a lakeside café run by a French patissier are amongst the many attractions.A week after its opening, Hetty and Lottie arrive in the village to take up residence in Primrose Cottage. The young-at-he...
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    9,69 €

  • The Chocolate Box Holiday
    Daphne Neville
    Sandra Burton was delighted to hear that she had won a family summer holiday in Pentrillick, Cornwall, and imagined twenty-one days of blissful happiness relaxing in the sun with not a care in the world.However, unbeknown to Sandra, the inclusion of her husband’s mother and his maiden aunt in the three week holiday meant that not all family members would be happy to just idle a...
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    7,98 €

  • The Old Tile House
    Daphne Neville
    Anna Greenwood had never been to Cornwall, yet she’d had a strong desire to visit the county for as long as she could remember. As her twenty-third birthday was drawing near, she decided to satisfy that yearning by booking a fortnight’s holiday.After searching the internet, she finally chose to stay at The Old Tile House in Penzance, for no other reason than she was fascinated ...
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    8,08 €

  • Trengillion’s Jubilee Jamboree
    Daphne Neville
    2012. Preparations are well underway for celebrations to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and in the City construction work is almost complete and ready for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games. In Cornwall, the inhabitants of Trengillion, having decided they would also like to celebrate the Queen’s sixty year reign, begin to organise festivities which, unbeknown to th...
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  • A Celestial Affair
    Daphne Neville
    1999. Twelve years have passed since Trengillion was covered in a deep blanket of snow and since then much has changed. Ned Stanley, the village school’s headmaster, has retired and the inn is, yet again, under new ownership. Throughout Cornwall, businesses are making final preparations for the half a million extra touristspredicted to visit the county in August for the much hy...
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    15,26 €

  • Polquillick
    Daphne Neville
    Summer 1953.Following their wedding, Ned Stanley and his bride head for The Ringing Bells Inn in Cornwall for a month-long honeymoon. Several days later they are joined by Ned’s best friend, George Clarke, who has recently split up with his girlfriend. By nature, George is very much a happy-go-lucky young man, but within days of his arrival in Cornwall, strange dreams begin to ...
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    11,43 €

  • The Ringing Bells Inn
    Daphne Neville
    February 1952 and the country is in mourning following the death of King George V1.On a train leaving London’s Paddington Station, Ned Stanley is bound for Cornwall to convalesce after an energy sapping bout of glandular fever. He has accommodation booked at the Ringing Bells Inn located on the Lizard Peninsula in the small fishing village of Trengillion on Cornwall’s beautiful...
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    11,47 €

  • Grave Allegations
    Daphne Neville
    1976; summer is fast approaching and the British Isles is on the verge of a severe drought.However, the hot, dry weather is welcome news for Cornwall’s holiday trade, and Wild West enthusiast, Raymond Withers, and his long suffering wife, Gloria, who run Trengillion’s Inn, anticipate a lucrative season.At the end of June, a stranger appears on the scene bearing the name Penwynt...
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    11,73 €

  • The Old Vicarage
    Daphne Neville
    December 1986 and Trengillion’s residents are preparing to celebrate Christmas.On New Year’s Eve, family and friends gather around a log fire at the Old Vicarage and tell ghostly tales of yesteryear.In mid-January the weather turns colder; snowflakes fall and the Cornish landscape is transformed into a white world; and with the coming of the snow, people and objects vanish into...
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    11,67 €

  • Sea, Sun, Cads and Scallywags
    Daphne Neville
    Summer 1967. The Swinging Sixties are at their height and Trengillion in Cornwall is much changed since the early 1950s. Charles, the last of Trengillion’s prestigious family, has died and his former home, Penwynton House, is up for sale, causing much consternation amongst villagers as to the future of the rambling neglected building. Inside Bluebell Woods, the children of the ...
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    11,56 €