HAVE YOU MET MAGGIE? Maggie Darling, forty-something former London pie and mash shop girl, returned home to the seaside village of Cromer for a relaxing life. Thanks to her Uncle Tristan, things haven’t worked out quite as she expected, much to her great annoyance. THE BAGINGTON HALL MYSTERY: Shadowy secrets lurk beneath the surface of an idyllic Norfolk Country House… Country House…
Norfolk, England, April 1923. Cromer is a sleepy village on the English coast. But things are about to liven up there, when Maggie Darling returns home from a seventeen year stint in London to work for her uncle’s new maid service business. No sooner has she arrived, when she gets mixed up in an agriculture strike, mistaken as a suffragette and loses a three legged kitten. But when a dead body shows up it all becomes very complicated…
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Didn’t actually finish it. Could not hold my attention.
I could not relate to this story. it read like a newspaper article.
This is a fun book! I enjoyed the English atmosphere and the well sketched characters. The mystery was not at all obvious which was satisfying, and the conclusion all one would wish. If you enjoy cozy mysteries set in England with colorful characters, this book is for you!
This book takes place in a small English village in the 1920’s. A woman comes back from London to help her uncle and gets a job with an wealthy family who is stuck back in the Victorian era. The lady of the manor is very eccentric and the lord of the manor is a total misogynist. The butler is a tyrant and the housekeeper is a drunk. The woman finds a dead body that has been dead for a long time in a disused wing of the house. The lord of the manor dies shortly afterward under suspicious circumstances.
Great story
Oh, the way things turn out!
I found myself skimming a lot of this book. It wasn’t badly written but I guess I just didn’t like the setup and there were too many annoying characters. The repeated description of the uncle’s manic behavior was tiresome.
I was disappointed in this book on all levels. The characters were so poorly developed and transparent they might have been wearing labels. So was the plot. Although there was a lot of bizarre behavior throughout the book, it was obvious from the beginning who was the killer, who was pretending to demented but wasn’t, and one who may or may have been but it didn’t matter.
Quirky story .
Good book of the period.
This book was very different from what I usually read, and that made it stand out. It contained a lot of unfamiliar British jargon I’d never heard before.
It’s a bit of a quirky read. The heroine is somewhat unlikely and her uncle is even quirkier, but it is a fun, quick read that keeps you interested to the end. The twists and turns keep you wondering who the bad guy is all the way to the end.
I couldn’t quite warm up to the characters
Didn’t figure this one at all!!
Rather plodding and did not keep my attention. At one point I considered just deleting it.
This was pretty good. It didn’t have a heavy romance thread like a lot of cosy mysteries & I appreciated that. I wasn’t really happy with how the mystery was wrapped up (not the who particularly, but the how. I’m afraid if I say anymore, that’ll be a spoiler)
Reads like Dickens wrote it. Loved it!!!
This is the worst book. Too many characters. The scenes ran together which was very confusing. Would not recommend.
I usually figure out the culprit but not this time.
The dialect might be a little hard to follow at times but is whitty and a bit outlandish. Some of the characters are a little hard to believe. It is a light read and not meant to be serious at all.