Cordelia Frances Biddle
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Philadelphia heiress and amateur sleuth Martha Beale investigates the kidnapping of a society girl on the verge of marriage in Cordelia Frances Biddle's second Martha Beale mystery Martha Beale, now the guardian of seven-year-old Ella and five-year-old Cai, has just returned to Philadelphia after summering in the country. The children have to begin school, and Martha looks forward to a reunion with Thomas Kelman, even though she isn't sure where their...
2) The conjurer
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An heiress breaks free of social conventions and attempts to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance in 1842 Philadelphia in Cordelia Frances Biddle's first Martha Beale mystery When her father fails to appear for lunch at their country estate, Martha Beale knows something is wrong. The family's faithful dogs discover Lemuel Beale's hunting rifle by the river, but there is no sign of the millionaire financier. Refusing to believe he is dead,...
3) Without Fear
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Philadelphia heiress and amateur sleuth Martha Beale investigates the identity of a headless corpse found on Joseph Bonaparte's estate in the third novel in acclaimed author Cordelia Frances Biddle's Martha Beale Mystery series With her hands full raising her adopted children and managing her father's financial empire, Martha Beale is also grieving the loss of her beau. Thomas Kelman, an assistant to the mayor, felt he could never belong in Martha's...
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Three mysteries set in nineteenth-century Philadelphia: From elegant drawing rooms to tragic slums, an heiress investigates a string of shocking crimes. The Conjurer: When Martha's father disappears from the family's country estate, she begins an investigation that takes her from the pinnacle of society-abuzz with the arrival of a European conjurer who communicates with the dead-to the city's poorest neighborhoods where a killer is targeting prostitutes....
5) The Actress
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A nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld.
Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman, who would typically infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters, but she is desperate for a powerful judge's help in preventing her abusive husband from taking custody of her child- and that'ss the price the judge set in exchange for his aid.
But, the plan goes awry, and now Becky is trapped among criminals and killers. Her...
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In nineteenth-century Philadelphia, a case of arson turns lethal-but who was the perpetrator and what was the motive? While Thomas Kelman, Martha Beale's beau, investigates the blaze, her adoptive daughter, Ella, is abducted. Then another fire destroys the home of industrialist Darius Rause, killing his adulterous wife. Is there a connection between the crimes? Martha and Kelman work to find an answer as they fight to rescue Ella before she also perishes,...