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Books in Letterford Mysteries series

  • Secrets of Shakespeare's Grave: The Shakespeare Mysteries, Book 1

    Deron R. Hicks, Mark Edward Geyer

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Sept. 4, 2012)
    Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family’s literary legacy and Shakespeare’s tomb before it’s too late? Antique paintings, secret passages, locked mausoleums, a four-hundred-year-old treasure, and a cast of quirky (and some ignoble) characters all add up to a fun original adventure. Readers will revel in a whirlwind journey through literary time and space in real-world locales from Mont St. Michel to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Central Park!
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  • Whiskers & Smoke: Flames are Catnip to a Deadly Arsonist on Edgemarsh Lake...

    Marian Babson

    Mass Market Paperback (St. Martin's Paperbacks, March 15, 1997)
    While the cat's away, a fire starter plays...After the tragic death of her husband, British housewife Rosemary Blake accepts a summer house and cat exchange across the Atlantic in her sister's adopted town of Edgemarsh Lake, New Hampshire. Lulled by promises of of beautiful scenery and a perfect day camp for her two children, she bids adieu to her gentle cat Esmond, and heads off to parts unknown.But from the moment they arrive, Rosemary senses something amiss. Her sister Celia is skittish and secretive. Their temporary cat Errol, a oversized Maine coon, is out every night and clearly up to no good. Worst of all, a rash of deadly fires has the entire town sniffing for smoke. Who is responsible for these lethal blazes? The fur flies as suspicions mount, and Rosemary realizes she must act quickly, before a fiery killer strikes again.