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A crime novel featuring writer-turned-sleuth Jane Austen, who, whilst with her family on a seaside holiday, ends up investigating a darkly forbidding but strangely attractive man who, she believes, is a murderer. Follows JANE AND THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT SCARGRAVE MANOR.
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" Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!...Jane's narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement...Captivating...Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?" -- "The New York Times Book Review"
" The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself." -- "Arizona Republic"
" Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer." -- "San Francisco Examiner"
" There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo." -- "USA Today"
& quot; Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!...Jane's narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement...Captivating...Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?& quot; -- The New York Times Book Review
& quot; The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself.& quot; -- Arizona Republic
& quot; Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer.& quot; -- San Francisco Examiner
& quot; There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo.& quot; -- USA Today
"Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!...Jane's narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement...Captivating...Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?"--The New York Times Book Review "The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself."--Arizona Republic "Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer."--San Francisco Examiner "There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo."--USA Today
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" The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself." -- "Arizona Republic"
" Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer." -- "San Francisco Examiner"
" There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo." -- "USA Today"
& quot; Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!...Jane's narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement...Captivating...Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?& quot; -- The New York Times Book Review
& quot; The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself.& quot; -- Arizona Republic
& quot; Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer.& quot; -- San Francisco Examiner
& quot; There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo.& quot; -- USA Today
"Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!...Jane's narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement...Captivating...Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?"--The New York Times Book Review "The words, characters, and references are so real it is a shock to find that the author is not Austen herself."--Arizona Republic "Delightful...captures the style and wit of Austen.... A real charmer."--San Francisco Examiner "There's plenty to enjoy in this crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo."--USA Today
Stephanie Barron was born in New York State and studied at the universities of Princeton and Stanford before becoming a journalist. She is now a full-time novelist. She lives in Golden, Colorado, with her husband and their sons.
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- PublisherHeadline Book Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0747217203
- ISBN 13 9780747217206
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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