A Mansion for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives at the lodge, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie’s parents: he has been found drowned in the mill reservoir.
Ronnie’s father suspects that this was no accident, and the post-mortem proves him right. Ronnie was murdered. Terrified and distraught, Mrs. Creswell refuses to stay at the Lodge a moment longer. But events take an even more shocking turn when ten-year-old Nancy Creswell, eyes and ears for her blind Uncle Nick, goes missing. An account of the fateful Saturday of Ronnie’s death arouses Kate’s suspicions, and furhter investigations could prove her right. But truth is never so straightforward at Milner Field. Uncle Nick spins an old story that could hold the key to finding Nancy alive—though the fabled curse may not have claimed its last victim yet. And only a set of old bones buried on the grounds will finally reveal the horrifying truth.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Frances Brody. (2023). A Mansion for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Frances Brody. 2023. A Mansion for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Frances Brody, A Mansion for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Frances Brody. A Mansion for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2023.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 2 | 2 |
OverDrive Product Record
- readingOrder
- 13
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857619
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 673678
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857619
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 673678
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857602
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Frances Brody
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- A Mansion for Murder
- seriesId
- 612380
- dateAdded
- 2023-03-17T18:11:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=6016357
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Mansion for Murder A Kate Shackleton Mystery
- crossRefId
- 6016357
- series
- Kate Shackleton
- subtitle
- A Kate Shackleton Mystery
- id
- 82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74
- starRating
- 0
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: AMansionforMurder_9781643857619_6016357
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1413857
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857619
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 673678
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 3/21/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82f6fc70-22e8-4c61-855a-a32bc07daf74&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: AMansionforMurder_6016357
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 673678
- type: ASIN
- value: B08SWLB58D
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 3/21/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82f6fc70-22e8-4c61-855a-a32bc07daf74&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: AMansionforMurder_9781643857619_6016357
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857619
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 673678
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 3/21/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=82f6fc70-22e8-4c61-855a-a32bc07daf74&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Women Sleuths
- value: Mystery and Suspense
- value: Fiction
- value: novels
- value: mystery
- value: England
- value: mysteries
- value: Historical mysteries
- value: cozy
- value: cozy mystery
- value: police
- value: mystery and thrillers
- value: fiction books
- value: murder mystery
- value: historical mystery fiction
- value: historical mystery
- value: mystery series
- value: detective novels
- value: historical mystery novels
- value: cozy mysteries women sleuths series
- value: mysteries and thrillers
- value: crime books
- value: mystery books
- value: Murder mystery books
- value: women sleuths mysteries
- value: mystery novels
- value: mystery thriller suspense
- value: books mystery
- value: gifts for women
- value: books fiction
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Brody, Frances
- bioText: Frances Brody lives in Leeds where she was born and grew up. After leaving school at 16, she worked and traveled, including a spell in New York. She then won a place at Ruskin College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at York University. Before creating the Kate Shackleton mysteries, Frances wrote historical sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium. When not writing or reading, Frances likes to test her less than brilliant map reading skills by walking in the Yorkshire Dales.
- name: Frances Brody
- publishDate
- 2023-03-21T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- A Mansion for Murder
- fullDescription
- Old bones speak from the grave as a curse descends on Saltaire in acclaimed author Frances Brody’s thirteenth Kate Shackleton mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.
When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives at the lodge, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie’s parents: he has been found drowned in the mill reservoir.
Ronnie’s father suspects that this was no accident, and the post-mortem proves him right. Ronnie was murdered. Terrified and distraught, Mrs. Creswell refuses to stay at the Lodge a moment longer. But events take an even more shocking turn when ten-year-old Nancy Creswell, eyes and ears for her blind Uncle Nick, goes missing. An account of the fateful Saturday of Ronnie’s death arouses Kate’s suspicions, and furhter investigations could prove her right. But truth is never so straightforward at Milner Field. Uncle Nick spins an old story that could hold the key to finding Nancy alive—though the fabled curse may not have claimed its last victim yet. And only a set of old bones buried on the grounds will finally reveal the horrifying truth. - seriesId
- 612380
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
January 2, 2023
In Brody’s deft 13th mystery featuring private inquiry agent Kate Shackleton (after 2020’s Murder Is in the Air), Ronnie Creswell—a maintenance worker at Yorkshire’s Salts Mill—urges Kate in a July 1930 letter to travel to the village of Saltaire so he can tell her a story about the past. But Ronnie dies in the mill’s reservoir before her arrival, and Kate discovers that the mill’s board chair Arnold Whitaker fears that it may not have been an accident, as Ronnie, who wished to marry Whitaker’s daughter, appears to have been looking into skullduggery threatening Whitaker’s livelihood. With the help of her associate, Jim Sykes, and housekeeper, Mrs. Sugden, Kate learns about potential industrial espionage, the disappearance of valuable silver and of a servant from the reputedly cursed Whitaker mansion, as well as the presence of some mysterious strangers at the mill. The melding of past and present, multifaceted characters, and a winning investigative team combine into a gripping and moving case. Longtime fans and new readers alike will find much to enjoy. Agent: Rebecca Winfield, David Luxton Assoc.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
February 15, 2023
Investigator Kate Shackleton, widowed in the Great War, is intrigued when she receives a letter from Ronnie Creswell asking to meet. She travels to his mill-town home in Yorkshire, but when she arrives, she finds that Ronnie is dead, apparently having drowned. She and her team, former police officer Jim Sykes and her housekeeper, Mrs. Sugden, are soon hired by the mill owner to investigate a case of industrial espionage and to ready a supposedly cursed mansion for sale. While there, Kate also looks into Ronnie's murder, hoping to clear someone she believes is wrongly accused. Then a second murder occurs, and Ronnie's young sister disappears. Framed by a carefully described English mill-town setting, this historical mystery, the latest in Brody's Kate Shackleton series (following Murder on a Summer's Day, 2017), combines an easy-to-like cast with a thoroughly entertaining, twist-filled plot and vivid details of the wool industry of the 1930s.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
March 1, 2023
A mysterious letter plunges a London detective into a world of myths and murder. After the death of her husband in World War I, Kate Shackleton started a detective agency with the help of former police officer assistant Jim Sykes and her multitalented housekeeper, Mrs. Sugden. In July 1930, she gets a letter from someone named Ronald Creswell, an up-and-comer at Salts Mill in Yorkshire whose parents work as caretakers at Milner Field, a mansion with a checkered past. He asks Kate to journey to the South Lodge at Milner Field, where his family lives, so he can tell her a story that he thinks will be of interest. Curious, she agrees after doing some research on the town of Saltaire, the mill, and the mansion. Unfortunately, just after she arrives at the Lodge, Ronnie's friend David Fairburn shows up with the news that he's found Ronnie's body floating in the mill's reservoir. There had been some conflict: Ronnie and Pamela Whitaker, a mill owner's daughter, had been planning to marry despite opposition from both families. Pamela's mother is determined that she marry wealthy Kevin Foxcroft, whose family business meshes with their own, though her father had developed a secret fondness for Ronnie. Pamela, who blames her parents' opposition for Ronnie's death, has moved to her grandmother's home, but she trusts Kate to find the truth. Mr. Whitaker hires Kate to look into the death, clear Fairburn, get the mansion ready for an auction, and look into industrial espionage at the mill. Accordingly, Mrs. Sugden organizes a cleaning team for the neglected mansion; Sykes looks into possible espionage; and Kate hunts Ronnie's killer. The ill-fated mansion was built over an Elizabethan manor house with a well reputed to hold the bones of a murdered woman. Past and the present both come under investigation before the truth emerges. A tale based on historical facts that's perfect for lovers of classic British mysteries.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- popularity
- 1132
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/82f6fc70-22e8-4c61-855a-a32bc07daf74/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 82f6fc70-22e8-4c61-855a-a32bc07daf74
- starRating
- 3.8
- readingOrder
- 13
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{82F6FC70-22E8-4C61-855A-A32BC07DAF74}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Mystery
- value: Historical Fiction
- publishDateText
- 03/21/2023
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781643857602
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- Old bones speak from the grave as a curse descends on Saltaire in acclaimed author Frances Brody’s thirteenth Kate Shackleton mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.
When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives at the lodge, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie’s parents: he has been found drowned in the mill reservoir.
Ronnie’s father suspects that this was no accident, and the post-mortem proves him right. Ronnie was murdered. Terrified and distraught, Mrs. Creswell refuses to stay at the Lodge a moment longer. But events take an even more shocking turn when ten-year-old Nancy Creswell,... - sortTitle
- Mansion for Murder A Kate Shackleton Mystery
- crossRefId
- 6016357
- series
- Kate Shackleton
- subtitle
- A Kate Shackleton Mystery
- publisher
- CROOKED LANE BOOKS
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC022040
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- code: FIC022060
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
- code: FIC022100
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
