A Woman of Consequence: The Investigations of Miss Dido Kent

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Macmillan, Apr 10, 2012 - Fiction - 383 pages

"If Jane Austen had written Miss Marple, she would have been Dido Kent, the inquisitive spinster."--Kirkus (starred review)

A Woman of Consequence, the third installment in Anna Dean's charming mystery series, opens with a visit to the ruins of an Abbey where Penelope Lambe, suffers a bad fall from the ancient stone steps. Before she slips into unconsciousness, Penelope manages to say, 'I saw her--It was her.' Soon people are certain that she saw the Grey Nun, a ghost reputed to walk the abbey's ruins. Miss Dido Kent, however, does not approve of ghosts. Disregarding everyone else's assumptions, and endeavoring to take her mind off the troubles of her family, Dido turns her energy toward solving the mystery. But events start to seem more sinister when a human skeleton is found at the abbey. Is Miss Lambe's accident connected to this discovery? Everyone is relying on Dido to find out. A captivating continuation of the Dido Kent series: rich in suspense, historical detail, and most of all, characters.

 

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Contents

Chapter One
7
Chapter Two
12
Chapter Three
18
Chapter Four
25
Chapter Five
32
Chapter Six
45
Chapter Seven
56
Chapter Eight
67
Chapter TwentyFour
195
Chapter TwentyFive
206
Chapter TwentySix
216
Chapter TwentySeven
226
Chapter TwentyEight
230
Chapter TwentyNine
240
Chapter Thirty
247
Chapter ThirtyOne
252

Chapter Nine
76
Chapter Ten
81
Chapter Eleven
88
Chapter Twelve
92
Chapter Thirteen
98
Chapter Fourteen
106
Chapter Fifteen
114
Chapter Sixteen
122
Chapter Seventeen
134
Chapter Eighteen
140
Chapter Nineteen
153
Chapter Twenty
160
Chapter TwentyOne
170
Chapter TwentyTwo
175
Chapter TwentyThree
185
Chapter ThirtyTwo
260
Chapter ThirtyThree
267
Chapter ThirtyFour
273
Chapter ThirtyFive
284
Chapter ThirtySix
290
Chapter ThirtySeven
298
Chapter ThirtyEight
315
Chapter ThirtyNine
320
Chapter Forty
331
Chapter FortyOne
338
Chapter FortyTwo
345
Chapter FortyThree
349
Chapter FortyFour
357
Chapter FortyFive
369
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About the author (2012)

ANNA DEAN began writing early on under the impression that everyone was taught to do so in order to pen books. By the time she discovered her mistake, the habit was too deeply ingrained to give up. The author of Bellfield Hall, A Gentleman of Fortune, A Woman of Consequence, and A Place of Confinement, Dean lives in England.

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