The tale of Hawthorn House : the cottage tales of Beatrix Potter

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Title:

The tale of Hawthorn House : the cottage tales of Beatrix Potter

Alternate title:

Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

Author:

Albert, Susan Wittig, author.

Series:

Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter ;

Series Number:

Summary:

After finding a baby on her doorstep, Beatrix Potter gives the child to Captain Miles Woodcock and his sister, Dimity, and sets out to uncover where the orphan came from.

Audience:

Adult Follett Library Resources

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

xii, 322 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Personal Subject:

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Women authors -- Fiction.

Women artists -- Fiction.

Foundlings -- Fiction.

Villages -- Fiction.

Manors -- England -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Berkley Prime Crime,

Publication Date:

2007

ISBN:

9780425216552

Publication Information:

New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2007.

Call Number:

ALBERT

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A brand-new mystery in the endearing Beatrix Potter series from a national bestselling author. During Sawrey's annual summer fÂte, Miss Beatrix Potter receives an unexpected visitor in the form of Baby Flora, left in a basket on her doorstep with a note, a sprig of hawthorn, and a scarab ring. All Beatrix knows about Flora's previous guardian is that she was a gray-haired woman, capable of scaling a brick wall in seconds. An investigation reveals that the ring was pawned and reclaimed in Sawrey by a resident of Hawthorn House. The legendary manor is supposed to be vacant-and rumored to be haunted. Now Beatrix and her animal friends are left pondering the possible involvement of fairy folk in these utterly puzzling happenings.

Author Notes

Susan Wittig Albert was born in Illinois in 1940. In 1985, she changed careers from working as the vice president and an English professor at Texas State University to becoming a full-time writer.

During the mid- to late-1980s, Albert was a ghostwriter for the Nancy Drew mystery series. She wrote the acclaimed "Work of Her Own: How Women Create Success and Fulfillment off the Traditional Career Track" in 1992. Under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, Albert and her husband, Bill Albert, co-authored a twelve-volume mystery series set in late Victorian/Edwardian England.

Albert writes the bestselling China Bayles mystery series, which features as its main character a Texas herbalist who had been a criminal attorney in Houston. Albert also writes the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter historical fantasy series, which is set in England during the early twentieth century.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Albert's charming fourth Beatrix Potter mystery (after 2006's The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood) finds our heroine unexpectedly in possession of a foundling child, Baby Flora. The reader knows the mysteriously twinkly Mrs. Overthewall stole Flora from her teenage mother, Emily, a maid at the gloomy and possibly haunted Hawthorn House, and left her on the Potter doorstep, but Beatrix-not having read the prologue-suspects the child of having gypsy origins. Capt. Miles Woodcock and his sister, Dimity, gladly give Flora a new home, leaving Beatrix to solve the mystery of her old one. Other thoughts of families and youngsters abound: Jemima Puddleduck broods over a nest of long overdue eggs; Reynard the Fox struggles with his unnatural fondness for Jemima; and the village gossips bring all their matchmaking powers to bear on Beatrix and the highly eligible Captain Woodcock. The whimsical blend of romance, mystery and nostalgia will keep cozy fans happily entertained. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

Sundry fairy folk may be the culprits who left a baby on Beatrix Potter's doorstep in the third of the "Cottage Tales" series. "China Bayles" series author Albert lives in Texas. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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