Henry Carter Hull

A 1930s housekeeper stars in "an Agatha Christie-like whodunit with touches of Olde World England and a soupçon of romance" ( Booklist ). In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's "ornamental hermit" to live on...