![]() ![]() Jane had been invited by her friend to the ball the soon to be dead Earl of Scargrave is throwing in Isobel’s honor. And then she must also take on the task of defending Fitzroy Payne, the new Earl of Scargrave, after he is accused of murdering Isobel’s accuser. Barron’s stories where Jane Austen acts as the detective, in this case attempting to clear the name of her friend Isobel, the newly married Countess of Scargrave, accused of the death of her husband. I usually claim in my retro reviews how it’s inexplicable that I haven’t gotten around to reading this or that, but in the case of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron, the truth is that I’ve been reluctant to read other Jane Austen-themed mysteries because of my own poor efforts at the genre.īut of late it’s been embarrassing to say that I haven’t read Ms. ![]()
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