![]() ![]() EXTRA 10 OFF 4+ ITEMS See all eligible items and terms. A Grave Matter A Lady Darby Mystery by Huber, Anna Lee, paperback. Huber elegantly blends espionage and mystery. A Grave Matter A Lady Darby Mystery 5.29. The byplay between Verity and Sidney, whom she believed dead for three years after he was erroneously reported killed in action, lends some romantic heat. ![]() The discovery of a body on the estate complicates an already complex plot involving blackmail, political intrigue, and coded messages. In addition, Verity learns that her nemesis, Lord Ardmore, is plotting some insidious skullduggery. Meanwhile, a house maid goes missing and tensions are building between Aunt Ernestine and her son, Reg, the new baronet, who was blinded at Ypres two years earlier. ![]() Aunt Ernestine, who’s in dire financial straits after her husband’s recent death, fears a number of paintings and other objets d’art that she was hoping to sell have been replaced by forgeries. Set in 1919, Huber’s fine fourth Verity Kent mystery (after 2019’s Penny for Your Secrets) finds 23-year-old Verity, who operated as a spy behind enemy lines during WWI, and her husband, Sidney, motoring down from London to her Aunt Ernestine’s estate in Wiltshire. Remember, friends, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. ![]()
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