The adventuress

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Pamela Evans

For West London sisters Sal and Ann Storey, 1957 should have been one of the happiest years of their lives, but their world is turned upside down when two family tragedies strike in quick succession. Left to run the family's sweetshop with their grandmother, Sal's new-found flair for business doesn't make up for everything she and Ann have lost. When Sal meets and falls in love with taxi driver Bob Beck, her luck seems to have changed. Bob becomes her one constant, particularly when Ann finally uncovers her long-held guilty secret, which could have explosive consequences for the sisters...

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Joan Aiken

Hatti Ward is the most accomplished and kind of the Ward sisters, but is treated with contempt by all except her mother. Packed off to her uncle's estate in Portsmouth, she has to endure her frightful cousins and haughty Lady Ursula. Soon she and Lady Ursula are in competition for a certain lord.

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M.J. Trow

HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered leader, William the Silent. However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe encounters trouble even before he leaves England. When the players make a detour to perform at the home of Dr John Dee, one of their tricks ends in tragedy - and an arrest for murder ...

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Andrew Rosenheim

It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure within America to stay out of the fight and the Nazi-sympathetic German-American Bund is working feverishly to make sure America does not intervene on the side of a beleaguered Great Britain.