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Amateur Sleuth
Author_Jess Armstrong
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Crime
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Female Sleuth
Historical Crime
Jess Armstrong
Mystery
The Curse of Penryth Hall
The Devil in Oxford
The Secret of the Three Fates
Product details
- ISBN 9780749032142
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: Allison & Busby
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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December, 1922. Ruby Vaughn expects nothing exciting from a quiet pre-Christmas visit to Oxford with her elderly employer, Mr Owen. Far from the strange and sometimes dangerous books that pass through their shop and with Mr Owen due to attend meetings of the antiquarian society, Ruby hopes for a peaceful week. But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is discovered among his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities, panic spreads throughout the city's cobbled streets.
Drawn reluctantly into the mystery by an old friend, Ruby soon realises Oxford is hiding dangerous secrets - especially when Ruan Kivell, the enigmatic folk healer she met in Cornwall, unexpectedly reappears.
Jess Armstrong's debut novel The Curse of Penryth Hall won the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur First Crime Novel Competition. She has a master's degree in American History but prefers writing about imaginary people to the real thing. Armstrong lives in New Orleans.
