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"This holiday season at the Pennyfoot, the head count is down--but
the body count is up..."
With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair
Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help.
Instead of visions of sugar plums, she's calling the plumber to
deal with flooded bathrooms. Then there's the surly new janitor,
who acts like he got coal in his stocking.
But as Cecily scrambles to hire and train new staff in time for
the holidays, one of her guests is beyond help. Gerald Evans is
found stabbed to death on the beach, and Cecily soon discovers he
was a private investigator from London looking into dark doings
involving the Pennyfoot. Who among the staff or guests was being
pursued, and what secret drove that person to cold-blooded murder?
The kitchen staff of the Pennyfoot Hotel is toiling away to prepare
the finest meal for the guests on Christmas. And the plum pudding
may very well be to die for...
Cecily Sinclair Baxter could use a Christmas miracle. Mrs. Chubb,
the Pennyfoot's housekeeper, must travel up north for a family
emergency, and Cecily needs a temporary replacement. The agency
doesn't have much to offer on short notice during this busy time of
year. But they have someone--Beatrice Tucker--who turns out to be
more of a curse. She fights with just about everyone, including
Archibald Armitage.
Star of the London stage, Armitage is staying at the Pennyfoot
this holiday season. His presence turns out to be a blessing after
he rescues the stable manager's dog from drowning in the icy duck
pond. But not everyone in Badgers End is a fan of the actor...
When Armitage drops dead after Beatrice serves him some plum
pudding, everyone assumes the huffy housekeeper is the culprit. But
as Cecily begins to investigate, the list of suspects grows, and
solving this case may not be as easy as pie...or pudding.
A dark spirit threatens the Pennyfoot's shiny and bright
Christmas...
The Christmas Angel is a welcome sight during the winter
season-but not this year. A killer is afoot in Badger's End,
cutting a lock of hair from his victims and sticking a gold angel
on their foreheads. Cecily Sinclair Baxter already promised her
husband that she'd take a hiatus from sleuthing. But three killings
have created a blizzard of bad publicity-and guests are canceling
their hotel reservations. She will have to find the angel of death
before he strikes again, leaving murder under the tree...
This holiday season there'll be murder under the mistletoe at the
Pennyfoot Hotel...
As friends, family, and guests gather at the Pennyfoot Hotel to
share the joys of the season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff
are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily's friend Madeline
arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the
decorations. Cecily believes that the holiday couldn't get off to a
better start...
But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the
bough and then turn up dead afterwards, the downstairs staff is
convinced a serial killer is among them...perhaps the mysterious
guest known only as J. Mortimer. When Madeline's baby disappears,
Cecily desperately tries to find the child. If she doesn't catch
this killer in time, everyone's cheer will quickly turn to fear.
Book a room at the Pennyfoot Hotel this holiday season for a
charming mystery that "combines the feel of an Agatha Christie
whodunit with a taste of Upstairs Downstairs"(Cozy Library). A
merry hustle and bustle heralds the holidays at the Pennyfoot-and
this year is doubly busy. Even as Cecily Sinclair Baxter prepares
for the holidays, she's also helping her friend Madeline plan her
impending wedding. This year, Cecily has a cracking holiday
surprise for her guests-gorgeous Christmas crackers handmade for
the Pennyfoot. And once the crackers pop, one lucky guest will
discover a beautiful pearl brooch. But things soon turn less than
jolly. A mysterious fire breaks out in an upstairs room, killing
the mood-and two guests. And at the bottom of it all: a missing
Christmas cracker. Who would deliver such a murderous gift?
Cecily's dead-set on solving this mystery before another deadly
present turns up, and Madeline's nuptials come unwound...
While decorating the Pennyfoot's ballroom for a Christmas
reception, Cecily sends her husband Baxter and stable manager
Samuel into the woods to cut some fresh boughs of holly for the
ballroom. An hour later their one-horse open carriage returns with
the horse, the holly...and the unwelcome gift of a dead body.
Baxter and Samuel are nowhere to be found. In what should be a
season of celebration with friends and family, Cecily means to
reunite hers and solve the mystery-even if a killer leads her in a
merry measure.
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