Arsenic with Austen
A Crime with the Classics Mystery
The Crime with the Classics Series: Book #1
- By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
- Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Description
Arsenic with Austen is the first book in a delightful new cozy mystery series in which an English teacher becomes involved in murder cases that reflect elements of her favorite books. When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn’t expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart thirty-five years before, and nearly lose her own life.Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered in a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of the whole town. As she gets to know the town’s eccentric inhabitants—including her own once-and-possibly-future love, Sheriff Luke Richards—she learns of a covert plan to develop Stony Beach into a major resort. She also hears hints that her aunt may have been murdered. Soon another suspicious death confirms this, and before long Emily herself experiences a near-fatal accident. Meanwhile, Emily reads Persuasion, hoping to find belated happiness with her first love as Anne Elliot did with Captain Wentworth. She notices a similarity between her not-quite-cousin Brock Runcible, heir to a smaller portion of her aunt’s property, and Mr. Elliot in Persuasion, and her suspicions of Brock crystallize. But as she and Luke continue to investigate and events speed toward a climax, Emily realizes that underneath the innocent-looking rocks of Stony Beach lurk festering jealousies that would have shocked even the worst of Jane Austen’s charming reprobates.
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The Crime with the Classics Series Series
Arsenic with Austen
By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Arsenic with Austen is the first book in a delightful new cozy mystery series in which an English teacher becomes involved in murder cases that reflect elements of her favorite books. When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn’t expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the... Read more »
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Bloodstains with Bronte
By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper.It's a stormy autumn and Emily is reading Wuthering Heights. Roman, a dark and brooding type, reminds her of Heathcliff. At a Halloween murder... Read more »
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Cyanide with Christie
By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery—third in the Crime with the Classics series.
Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers’ retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her first set of guests.... Read more »
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Death with Dostoevsky
By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor Emily Cavanaugh makes a horrific discovery while writing her book on Dostoevsky in the entertaining fourth Crime with the Classics story.
Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Bede College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky. She is soon reunited with one of her... Read more »
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