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Неуклонно следовать золотым стандартам Кристи и Конан Дойля – и одновременно смело выворачивать их наизнанку... Невозможно? А вот и нет! Новый самородок британского детектива виртуозно доказывает обратное. Сочетание классической головоломной интриги и потрясающего современного юмора – стихия Кинси. Леди Эмили Хардкасл – эксцентричная вдова с таинственным прошлым. А Флоренс Армстронг – ее горничная, а также мастер восточных единоборств. В 1908 году они переехали из Лондона в провинцию в надежде на тихую сельскую жизнь. Не тут-то было: рядом с их домом в лесу найден повешенным молодой мужчина. Полиция взяла ложный след, и дамы начинают…

Неуклонно следовать золотым стандартам Кристи и Конан Дойля – и одновременно смело выворачивать их наизнанку… Невозможно? А вот и нет! Новый самородок британского детектива виртуозно доказывает обратное. Сочетание классической головоломной интриги и потрясающего современного юмора – стихия Кинси. Весной 1909 года леди Эмили Хардкасл, известная всей округе как выдающийся сыщик, и ее горничная Флоренс Армстронг, гроза окрестных бузотеров, решили наконец-то отдохнуть. А на досуге задумали исполнить свою давнюю мечту – купить автомобиль и научиться его водить. (То-то остолбенеют все окрестные джентльмены!) Но судьба двух достойных дам, как…

Неуклонно следовать золотым стандартам Кристи и Конан Дойля – и одновременно смело выворачивать их наизнанку... Невозможно? А вот и нет! Новый самородок британского детектива виртуозно доказывает обратное. Сочетание классической головоломной интриги и потрясающего современного юмора – стихия Кинси. Находчивая леди Эмили Хардкасл и ее бойкая горничная Флоренс Армстронг прославились как дуэт незаурядных сыщиц. Да еще разъезжающих на собственном автомобиле! Осенью 1909 года они получили заманчивое предложение: поучаствовать в новомодной забаве, автогонках, – наравне с мужчинами. Сначала заезд для джентльменов, затем – для дам… Впрочем, до…

Англия, 1909 год. Леди Хардкасл и ее верная горничная Флоренс Армстронг известны как успешные детективы-любители, но у леди есть еще одна страсть – "живые картины", то есть кинематограф и анимация. Поэтому приезд кинематографистов с фильмом "Ведьмина погибель" для нее – шанс показать публике свои произведения. Однако сеанс и пирушка по этому случаю закончились жутчайшим образом. Наутро актера Бэзила Ньюхауса нашли с проколотым сердцем, а рядом с ним – куклу, его точную копию, чье сердце тоже было пронзено. Точно так же ведьма в фильме убила его персонажа. В который раз невинное желание развлечься обернулось для неугомонного дуэта леди и…

Англия, 1910 год. Леди Хардкасл и ее горничная Фло не только нарываются на преступления и потом щелкают их как орехи. Парочка затмевает мужчин во всем. Они просто должны были столкнуться с острейшим вопросом времени – эмансипацией. И вот пожалуйста. Судьба свела их сразу с боевым крылом эмансипе — суфражетками, прославившимися агрессивными акциями. Лиззи Уоррел обвиняют в поджоге и убийстве: в огне погиб известный журналист. Соратницы уверены в ее невиновности — даже оголтелая суфражетка ни за что не пойдет на убийство. Но власти считают иначе, да и улики указывают на несчастную; ей грозит виселица. Леди и Фло берутся за дело, не…

It’s Christmas 1909, and for once Lady Hardcastle—respectable gentlewoman, amateur spy—and her lady’s maid, Florence Armstrong, are setting sleuthing aside. They are invited to the festivities up at The Grange, as guests of Sir Hector and Lady Farley-Stroud. But barely have corks been popped and parlour games played when a mysterious crime comes to light. Someone has broken in while the revellers were distracted and made off with a priceless pearl necklace. Lady Hardcastle and Flo are determined to catch the thief—but with so many Christmas guests encamped at The Grange, is it possible that the felon is hiding in plain sight? With the…

July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing—and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve. The first to disappear is Dr Goddard, a scientist doing something terribly top-secret for the government. Gone too are his strongbox and its mysterious contents. By the time Lady Hardcastle has questioned the horde of international guests, her number-one suspect has been dispatched in grisly circumstances—and then the others start vanishing…

Неуклонно следовать золотым стандартам Кристи и Конан Дойля – и одновременно смело выворачивать их наизнанку... Невозможно? А вот и нет! Новый самородок британского детектива виртуозно доказывает обратное. Сочетание классической головоломной интриги и потрясающего современного юмора – стихия Кинси. Леди Эмили Хардкасл – эксцентричная вдова с таинственным прошлым. А Флоренс Армстронг – ее горничная, а также мастер восточных единоборств. В 1908 году они переехали из Лондона в провинцию в надежде на тихую сельскую жизнь. Не тут-то было: рядом с их домом в лесу найден повешенным молодой мужчина. Полиция взяла ложный след, и дамы начинают…

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art exhibition―and bicycle race―to look forward to. But at the exhibition opening, there’s a panicked shout of ‘Fire!’ In the confusion, the main attraction―an extremely expensive book―is stolen from under everyone’s nose, as is a valuable painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud. Then the race, which starts as a charming day out, ends in a shocking death. And to top it all off, the Farley-Strouds reveal they’re in debt and might lose their house. The sleuthing duo soon find themselves torn between a murder investigation, an art theft mystery, and trying to help their pals. All with a suspicious figure from Flo’s past, a supercilious insurance investigator, and a pair of rather bizarre treasure hunters on the loose…

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart.

Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?

When a second cider-related murder takes place, it quickly becomes clear that there’s more to these mysterious deaths than meets the eye. The daring duo uncover whispers of an ancient order and moonlit rituals. And evidence points to a macabre secret in the village stretching back years. A secret someone will do anything—anything at all—to keep hidden.

Something is rotten, that’s for sure. With the local constabulary baffled, Lady Hardcastle and Flo must use all their powers of wit and whimsy to get to the bottom of the dastardly deed. But can they catch the killer before any more people drop dead?

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage—a real one. One of the cast has been brutally murdered during the interval.

When other matters get in the way of Inspector Sunderland overseeing the case himself, he asks the ever-resourceful Lady H to keep a watchful eye on the suspects—and his police colleagues. Rustling up some cunning disguises of their own, she and Flo are soon in deep cover among the cast and crew, pulling back the curtain on some shocking secrets and rivalries…

The problem is, everyone seems to have a motive, and everyone seems to have an alibi…In this locked-room mystery in which nothing is as it seems, the amateur sleuths need to put on the performances of their lives if they’re to stand a chance of shining a spotlight on the truth…

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation…

Closer investigation reveals that the driver’s car was sabotaged—and the driver murdered. The local constabulary are quick to dismiss the case, but Flo and Lady Hardcastle are determined to find out just who has committed this dastardly act, and why.

As the pair begin to make enquiries of Lord Riddlethorpe’s servants and guests, it seems that, below stairs and above, there is more to this case than meets the eye. And, even in the quiet of the countryside, death is always just around the bend.

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case.

Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. Was it poison or just ill luck?

As they delve further into their investigation, they encounter a theft where nothing is stolen, a séance with a troubled ghost and an ever-increasing number of Spencer’s family and friends who might just have motive for murder. One thing’s for sure: Lady Hardcastle has a mystery on her hands.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.

When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

With her trusted maid and confidante, the formidable Flo, Lady Hardcastle sets…

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.

A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong—with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.

In between strolls to the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in aeronautics, the stakes are high—sky high—and the suspects soon mount up.

Can Lady Hardcastle find the culprit before someone else falls down dead?