A Jane Austen Encounter: An Elizabeth and Richard Mystery
Donna Fletcher Crow
May 2014 · StoneHouse Ink
Ebook
190
Pages
About this ebook
A JANE AUSTEN ENCOUNTER is Book Three in The Elizabeth and Richard Mystery Series.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
English professors Elizabeth and Richard are celebrating twenty
years of marriage with their dream vacation—visiting all Jane Austen’s
homes in England. But not even the overpowering personality of their
Oxford guide or the careful attentions of their new friends can keep the
tour free from lurking alarms. When a box of old documents is donated
to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, Richard volunteers to help sort
through it. Later that night, however, he finds the Centre’s director
bleeding on her office floor. Could the valuable letter that has gone
missing really lead them to new revelations about Jane Austen’s
unfinished manuscript The Watsons?
Encounter Jane Austen with Elizabeth and Richard on their tour.
Visit all the sites so redolent of Jane Austen and her characters in the
beautiful city of Bath. Stay in the Chawton House Library and visit the
charming Chawton cottage where Jane’s writing flowered, and the nearby
Steventon church where her father was rector and her own faith
developed. Stand by her grave in Winchester Cathedral and enjoy your
time at the lovely country estate of Godmersham. But don’t let your
guard down. Evil lurks even in the genteel world of Jane Austen.
REVIEWS
"Playful mystery featuring an engaging pair of amateur sleuths
A letter, apparently from Jane Austen’s great-niece, is at the
heart of this entertaining literary mystery— the third volume in Donna
Fletcher Crow’s Elizabeth and Richard series. American academics
Elizabeth and Richard Spenser are celebrating their 20th wedding
anniversary with a trip to England to visit Jane Austen’s various homes.
Their first port of call is Bath, where Richard— thanks to his
distinction as an Austen scholar— is invited to help sort through a box
of documents donated anonymously to the city’s Jane Austen Centre.
Delighted to discover a letter that seems to contain new material
about Austen’s unfinished novel, The Watsons, Richard is then horrified
to find the centre’s director wounded and unconscious— and the precious
document gone. Cue a tour of Austenland, in search of answers— in the
company of a clutch of suspects who wouldn’t be out of place in an
Agatha Christie novel.
It’s great fun— but just as entertaining as the mystery itself are
the settings. Fletcher Crow brings Bath, Winchester and Chawton to vivid
life in her pages, with a good helping of literary history and numerous
references to Austen’s writings that illuminate the narrative.
The Spensers have already featured in adventures involving Dorothy
L. Sayers and William Shakespeare. Where will their literary sleuthery
take them next, I wonder?"
—Jane Austen’s Regency World
"I've always been a fan of the traditional cozy murder mystery such
as Agatha Christie wrote, or Dorothy L. Sayers, or Margery Allingham—the
sort of story portrayed on A & E or PBS Mystery Theatre. So I was
excited to discover a modern-day voice that has captured that fast-paced
and snappy dialogue that you would find in a Tommy & Tuppence
whodunit. That voice is Donna Fletcher Crow, award-winning novelist.”
—Christine Lindsay, Twilight of the British Raj Series
THE ELIZABETH AND RICHARD MYSTERY SERIES
Shadow of Reality
A Midsummer Eve’s Nightmare
A Jane Austen Encounter
BOOK DESCRIPTION
English professors Elizabeth and Richard are celebrating twenty
years of marriage with their dream vacation—visiting all Jane Austen’s
homes in England. But not even the overpowering personality of their
Oxford guide or the careful attentions of their new friends can keep the
tour free from lurking alarms. When a box of old documents is donated
to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, Richard volunteers to help sort
through it. Later that night, however, he finds the Centre’s director
bleeding on her office floor. Could the valuable letter that has gone
missing really lead them to new revelations about Jane Austen’s
unfinished manuscript The Watsons?
Encounter Jane Austen with Elizabeth and Richard on their tour.
Visit all the sites so redolent of Jane Austen and her characters in the
beautiful city of Bath. Stay in the Chawton House Library and visit the
charming Chawton cottage where Jane’s writing flowered, and the nearby
Steventon church where her father was rector and her own faith
developed. Stand by her grave in Winchester Cathedral and enjoy your
time at the lovely country estate of Godmersham. But don’t let your
guard down. Evil lurks even in the genteel world of Jane Austen.
REVIEWS
"Playful mystery featuring an engaging pair of amateur sleuths
A letter, apparently from Jane Austen’s great-niece, is at the
heart of this entertaining literary mystery— the third volume in Donna
Fletcher Crow’s Elizabeth and Richard series. American academics
Elizabeth and Richard Spenser are celebrating their 20th wedding
anniversary with a trip to England to visit Jane Austen’s various homes.
Their first port of call is Bath, where Richard— thanks to his
distinction as an Austen scholar— is invited to help sort through a box
of documents donated anonymously to the city’s Jane Austen Centre.
Delighted to discover a letter that seems to contain new material
about Austen’s unfinished novel, The Watsons, Richard is then horrified
to find the centre’s director wounded and unconscious— and the precious
document gone. Cue a tour of Austenland, in search of answers— in the
company of a clutch of suspects who wouldn’t be out of place in an
Agatha Christie novel.
It’s great fun— but just as entertaining as the mystery itself are
the settings. Fletcher Crow brings Bath, Winchester and Chawton to vivid
life in her pages, with a good helping of literary history and numerous
references to Austen’s writings that illuminate the narrative.
The Spensers have already featured in adventures involving Dorothy
L. Sayers and William Shakespeare. Where will their literary sleuthery
take them next, I wonder?"
—Jane Austen’s Regency World
"I've always been a fan of the traditional cozy murder mystery such
as Agatha Christie wrote, or Dorothy L. Sayers, or Margery Allingham—the
sort of story portrayed on A & E or PBS Mystery Theatre. So I was
excited to discover a modern-day voice that has captured that fast-paced
and snappy dialogue that you would find in a Tommy & Tuppence
whodunit. That voice is Donna Fletcher Crow, award-winning novelist.”
—Christine Lindsay, Twilight of the British Raj Series
THE ELIZABETH AND RICHARD MYSTERY SERIES
Shadow of Reality
A Midsummer Eve’s Nightmare
A Jane Austen Encounter
About the author
Donna Fletcher Crow, who lives in Idaho with her husband of 46 years, is
the mother of four adult children, grandmother of 10 and author of
thirty-some books, mostly novels dealing with British history. Her best
known book is the epic historical novel Glastonbury, The Novel of
Christian England, which was awarded First Place, Historical Fiction, by
the National Federation of Press Women.
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