Mrs. Jeffries Defends Her Own (A Victorian Mystery)

ISBN: 0425248054

Author: Brightwell, Emily

Condition: New

She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon...and keeps him on his toes. Everyones awed by his Scotland Yard successes-but they dont know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries polished detection skills are up to the task...proving that behind every great man theres a woman-and that a crimesolvers work is never done.When the general office manager of Sutcliffe Manufacturing is murdered, no one is really surprised. Ronald Dearman was anything but a dear man. The tyrannical bully had more than enough enemies to go around. But who hated him enough to walk into his office and put a bullet between his eyes?For once, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon doesn't get the case; it's given to another inspector. Then someone from Mrs. Jeffries' past-someone she'd hoped to never see again-shows up and begs for her help. Now Mrs. Jeffries must step into the fray and stop a terrible miscarriage of justice