Robin Paige Victorian-Edwardian mysteries

Kathryn Ardleigh, an outspoken, free-thinking American, accepts employment with a kindly maiden aunt living in Victorian England and finds herself investigating a mysterious death at an archaeological excavation and two other murders much closer to home.

Sir Charles Sheridan, with the aid of American writer Kate Ardleigh, investigates the deaths of both a nobleman and a stable boy on the Easton estate of the Countess of Warwick.

Kathryn and Charles Ardleigh find their peaceful holiday at the seaside hamlet of Rottingdean turned upside down when the body of a coast guard is found on the beach, and with the help of a young writer named Rudyard Kipling, the sleuthing couple sets out to uncover the truth.

The Sheridans are on the scene at Derby Day in Epsom Downs--Charles is taking photographs and Kate is gathering information for her latest novel--but the race becomes life-or-death when one of the jockeys does not make it to the finish line.

Marlborough Hall, 1154. According to British lore, this ancient palace once hosted a torrid love affair between young King Henry II and a teenaged Rosamund, right under the patrician nose of his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. To keep his mistress safe from his scorned wife, Henry built Rosamund a house once could only reach by labyrinth-and only then with a spool of thread. But his titanic efforts proved futile when he found the girl poisoned to death-and...