Mrs. Jeffries wins the prize
By: Emily Brightwell
Edition: Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Series: [Mrs. Jeffries mystery]; A Victorian mystery; Victorian mysteries
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780425268117
Subjects: Murder; Police; Women household employees; Mrs. Jeffries (Fictitious character); Investigation; Housekeepers; Gardening; Fiction; Gerald Witherspoon (Fictitious character); Orchids
Description: he ladies of the Mayfair Orchid and Exotic Plant Society are known for a bit of friendly rivalry, but the backstabbing has never been literal--until now. When Hiram Filmore, an orchid hunter and supplier, is found dead in Mrs. Helena Rayburn's conservatory, Inspector Witherspoon is called in to weed out a murderer. When it comes out that Mrs. Rayburn and her flowery friend knew each other from long ago, Mrs. Jeffries begins to suspect that there's more to unearth about this case. Now she, along with the rest of Inspector Witherspoon's household and friends, will have to dig up the past to figure out which gardening gentlewoman had a grudge worth killing for.