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To make ends meet, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her ladyâs maid, Eva Huntford, have decided to open up Foxwood Hall to guided public tours. Not everyone is pleased about itâeven to the point of committing murder . . .
The lean times following the Great War continue to require creative solutions for England's noble class. But Lady Phoebeâs proposal to open up the Renshaw estate to guided tours for additional income strikes many in the family as a âvulgar enterprise.â Phoebeâs grandfather, the Earl of Wroxly, however, reluctantly concedes the necessity.
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Their first tour group consists of members of the Historical Society, a magazine writer, and a flock of students. Itâs a large group for Phoebe, her sister Amelia, and Eva to manage, and when the widow Arvina Bell goes missing, Eva goes in search of herâonly to find her in the library, strangled with a silken drapery cord.
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The schoolchildren are promptly sent home, but the members of the Historical Societyâmany of whom also wandered off at timesâremain for interrogation. There is also, curiously, a framed photo missing from the library. As the police hastily zero in on a suspect, Phoebe and Eva weigh the clues. Does the crime have to do with rumors of hidden treasure at Foxwood Hall? But they must make haste to solve the widowâs murderâbefore someone else becomes history . . .
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