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The Fatal Flying Affair

A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7

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August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.

A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.

In between strolls to the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in aeronautics, the stakes are high - sky high - and the suspects soon mount up.

Can Lady Hardcastle find the culprit before someone else falls down dead?

©2020 T E Kinsey (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Amateur Sleuth Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Aviation British Mysteries British Fiction

What the critics say

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

“This audiobook should have come with a warning: Listen at your own risk. If others try to pause it, you may snap their heads off in frustration. As Lady Hardcastle and her lady's maid, Flo, return to spying for England in the summer of 1911, narrator Elizabeth Knowelden enhances the story full of witticisms and a clever plot by immersing listeners in the lives of these two characters. Listeners will catch Flo's excitement as she discovers that her newest job requires investigation at an airfield where someone was recently killed.” --AudioFile Magazine
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Never disappoints - cannot wait for the next book and adore Elizabeth’s Knowelden’s interpretation - truly awesome

“Absolutely Fabulous”

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I love this writer . Emily and Flo are so enjoyable. The mystery is well developed and the characters are well fleshed out .
I will listen to it over and over.

Extremely enjoyable

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The stories are clever. The characters and dialogue are witty. I am enjoying this series very much and look forward to more from this author.
The narrator does such a fine job with all of the various characters. She is superb.
I also appreciate that the chapters are all in the neighbourhood of 30 minutes. So much nicer to listen too than those that are chopped up into tiny bits.

Just good fun.

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