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Author:

Brightwell, Emily, author.

Title:

Mrs. Jeffries wins the prize / Emily Brightwell.

Edition:

Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.

Publisher:

Berkley Prime Crimean imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

292 pages ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Jeffries, Mrs. (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Witherspoon, Gerald (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction.
Housekeepers--England--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
Orchids--Fiction.
Gardening--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Summary:

he ladies of the Mayfair Orchid and Exotic Plant Society are known for a bit of friendly rivalry, but the backstabbing has never been literal--until now. When Hiram Filmore, an orchid hunter and supplier, is found dead in Mrs. Helena Rayburn's conservatory, Inspector Witherspoon is called in to weed out a murderer. When it comes out that Mrs. Rayburn and her flowery friend knew each other from long ago, Mrs. Jeffries begins to suspect that there's more to unearth about this case. Now she, along with the rest of Inspector Witherspoon's household and friends, will have to dig up the past to figure out which gardening gentlewoman had a grudge worth killing for.

Series:

[Mrs. Jeffries mystery]
A Victorian mystery
Brightwell, Emily. Mrs. Jeffries mystery.

ISBN:

042526811X
9780425268117

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911068499

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

AJPE887 -- Matilda J. Gibson Memorial Library (Creston)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)