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The Abbey Mystery (Jane Austen Investigates)
Any Jane Austen fan will appreciate this witty, humorous imagining of how the teenaged Jane might have approached a detective mystery!
Suitable for older children, teens and adults, ‘The Abbey Mystery’ has riches, poverty, discrimination, heroic acts and more – it kept me whizzing through until the mystery had been resolved.
Jane, 13, travels to Southmoor Abbey to be a companion to the self-obsessed Lady Cromwell in the run-up to her son’s coming-of-age party. Jane is determined to resolve her brother’s suspicions about a ghost in the grounds – but she gets more than she bargained for when there’s a suspicious fire, and two prize racehorses go missing.
‘The Abbey Mystery’ is thrilling, right up to the end!