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On a Wednesday in October 1816, tutor Fortescue Dacre is drawn into seeking an “impartial opinion,” sharpening tensions around who is truly involved and why. A growing cast of village and manor figures adds intrigue, secrets, and shifting loyalties.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE KILLER’ S DASTARDLY INTRIGUE  \nGRAVESYDE VILLAGE MYSTERIES  \nBOOK SIX  \nPATRICIA RICE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nPlease Join My Reader List  \nCharacters  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nTwelve  \nThirteen  \nFourteen  \nFifteen  \nSixteen  \nSeventeen  \nEighteen  \nNineteen  \nTwenty  \nTwenty-one  \nTwenty-two  \nTwenty-three  \nTwenty-four  \nTwenty-five  \nTwenty-six  \nTwenty-seven  \nTwenty-eight  \nTwenty-nine  \nThirty  \nThirty-one  \nThirty-two  \nThirty-three  \nThirty-four  \nThirty-five  \nThirty-six  \nThirty-seven  \nThirty-eight  \nThirty-nine  \nForty  \nForty-one  \nEpilogue  \nPlease Join My Reader List  \nGravesyde Village Mysteries Gravesyde Priory Mystery  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Patricia Rice  \nAbout Book View Café [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPLEASE JOIN MY READER LIST  \nPlease consider joining my newsletter for exclusive content and news of upcoming releases. Be the first to know about special sales, freebies, stories from my writer life, and other fun information. You'll even receive a thankyou gift. Join me on my writing adventures!  \nJOIN HERE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHARACTERS  \nTerrence (Birdwhistle/ Fort) Fortescue Dacre: tutor and duke’s youngest son  \nLavender Marlowe—young modiste  \nDorothea (Thea) Reid Talbot—interior decorator; art gallery owner Arnaud Lavigne—artist, former French comte  \nMontague (Monty) Dacre, Earl of Weston: duke’s eldest son; Fort’s brother  \nHubert Humphries—wealthy American friend of Thea’s father Jones—Humphries’ ex-pugilist valet  \nChandar—Humphries’Indian servant  \nHaggarty—Humphries’lawyer  \nWilson—Haggarty’s graying servant  \nThelonious Gladstone—Humphries’partner; investor Darley—Gladstone’s blond, curly-haired valet  \nAlbert Jefferson Featherstone—Humphries’ gaming partner Tatum—Featherstone’s pretty-faced valet  \nCalendar—architect  \nBobbert—Calendar ’s assistant  \nPerser—Humphries’ accountant  \nVenetia Abercrombie—Weston’s mistress and mother of his sons  \nVILLAGE:  \nKate Morgan Ferguson—seamstress, manages Lavender ’s dress shop Fletcher Ferguson (Fletch)—inn partner; former soldier; married to Kate Damien Sutter—solicitor and landowner  \nSgt. Rufus Russell (Rafe)—retired army; innkeeper; bailiff Verity Russell—teacher, Rafe’s wife  \nPaul Upton—curate, carpenter  \nMinerva Upton—librarian, curate’s wife Lord Cecil Greybourne, baron—writer, lecturer Andrew and Eleanor—Greybourne’s assistants  \nMANOR:  \nLady Lavinia Marlowe—Lavender ’s grandmother; late Earl of Wycliffe’s daughter  \nElaine, Lady Spalding—Marchioness of Spalding; late Earl of Wycliffe’s granddaughter  \nCaptain (Hunt) Huntley—US Army engineer, magistrate; manor trustee Clarissa (Clare) Huntley—wife of Hunt and secret novelist  \nHenri Lavigne—Arnaud’s younger brother, tavern owner, peddler Patience Upton Lavigne—Henri’s wife; gardener; curate’s sister Lady Elsa Villiers de Sackville—manor cook  \nHonorable Jack de Sackville—stable owner; Elsa’s husband Daniel Walker—Hunt’s friend, steward; Meera’s husband Meera Abrams Walker—physician/apothecary; Clare’s best friend Mrs. Ingraham—Lavender ’s grandmother  \nOliver Owen—Clare Huntley’s nine-year-old nephew David (Davy) Talbot—Thea’s ten-year-old brother  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nONE  \nOCTOBER 1816  \nFORTESCUE: WEDNESDAY  \n“Mr. Birdwhistle, sir, if you might leave your students to their lesson, we are having a. . . consultation. . . and require impartial opinion.”Lavender Marlowe, the youngest female in the late Earl of Wycliffe’s household, clutched her hands until her knuckles whitened.  \nStruck by about the unlikelihood of anyone in this household consulting anyone, much less a mere tutor,“Birdwhistle,” set down his book. Anything that upset Miss Lavender, upset him.“Of course, Miss Marlowe.”  \nWith an excess of the Wycliffe family’s blond beauty, the young modiste wore wispy side curls, delicate muslin, and a lacy fichu that almost concealed","cbCaiioPRNbOgOvG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiioPRNbOgOvG","pdf",3084285,326,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Characters\n## One\n## Two\n## Three\n## Four\n## Five\n## Six\n## Seven\n## Eight\n## Nine\n## Ten\n## Eleven\n## Twelve\n## Thirteen\n## Fourteen\n## Fifteen\n## Sixteen\n## Seventeen\n## Eighteen\n## Nineteen\n## Twenty\n## Twenty-one\n## Twenty-two\n## Twenty-three\n## Twenty-four\n## Twenty-five\n## Twenty-six\n## Twenty-seven\n## Twenty-eight\n## Twenty-nine\n## Thirty\n## Thirty-one\n## Thirty-two\n## Thirty-three\n## Thirty-four\n## Thirty-five\n## Thirty-six\n## Thirty-seven\n## Thirty-eight\n## Thirty-nine\n## Forty\n## Forty-one\n## Epilogue","[{\"question\":\"Who is Lavender Marlowe in this story?\",\"answer\":\"Lavender Marlowe is the youngest female in the late Earl of Wycliffe’s household and a young modiste. 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