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The Secret Staircase: A Mystery
Contributor(s): Connolly, Sheila (Author)
ISBN: 1250135907     ISBN-13: 9781250135902
Publisher: Minotaur Books
OUR PRICE:   $24.29  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2021
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Cozy - General
Dewey: 813.6
LCCN: 2021008137
Series: Victorian Village Mysteries
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.77" W x 8.3" (0.82 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:

From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly, The Secret Staircase is the third Victorian Village Mystery, which finds Kate Hamilton discovering a long-dead body in a hidden staircase.

Kate Hamilton is feeling good about her plans to recreate Asheboro, Maryland as the Victorian village it once was. The town is finally on her side, and the finances are coming together.

Kate's first goal is to renovate the Barton Mansion on the outskirts of town. Luckily, it's been well maintained in the century since the wealthy Henry Barton lived and died there. The only substantial change she's planning is to update the original kitchen so that it can be used to cater events in the building. But when the contractor gets started, he discovers a hidden staircase that had been walled in years earlier. And as Kate's luck would have it, in the stairwell is a body.

After her initial shock wears off, Kate is relieved when the autopsy reveals that the man had died around 1880. Unfortunately, it also reveals that his was not a natural death--he was murdered. And serious questions remain: who was he and what was he doing there?

Kate begins a hunt to identify the man and figure out what he was doing at the Barton Mansion. But when a second body is found--this time from the present day--Kate realizes that real dangers lie in digging up the past...


Contributor Bio(s): Connolly, Sheila: - SHEILA CONNOLLY has published over thirty mysteries, including several New York Times bestsellers. Her series include the Orchard Mysteries, the Museum Mysteries, The County Cork Mysteries, and the newest, the Victorian Village Mysteries. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and owns a cottage in West Cork. She lives in a too-big Victorian in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and three cats.