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ASHES FROM A BURNING CORPSE is Noel Hynd's novelization of his father's reporting on the sensational murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas 8 July 1943. Alan Hynd, American crime reporter 1920-1970s and best-selling true-crime writer, covered the case for True Magazine from 12 July 1943...

IN DARCY'S PLACE is Gwendolyn Dash's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in 2018 in free or inexpensive digital format. Elizabeth Bennet is miserable at Charles Bingley's Netherfield ball. Already half in love with George Wickham, she is disappointed at his absence...

THE CASE OF WILLIAM SMITH is the thirteenth book in Patricia Wentworth's long-running Miss Maud Silver mystery series. Originally published in 1950, it was reissued in digital format in 2011. William Smith survived German prison camps to return to England with no memory of his life before his...

THE NUNNERY is Anne Morris's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, recently available in free or inexpensive digital format. THE NUNNERY opens with Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, dialogue when Hamlet orders Ophelia, "Get thee to a nunnery," playing on the double meaning of the term. In...

THE GAZEBO is Don H. Miller's 2018 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. When Fitzwilliam Darcy comes to Hertfordshire to mentor friend Charles Bingley in estate management at Netherfield, he and Elizabeth Bennet already know of...

SNOWBOUND WITH DARCY is Caitlin Marie Carrington's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. At the Netherfield Ball, Fitzwilliam Darcy's behavior with Elizabeth Bennet leads her to begin reassessing his character. Both sister Jane and...

MR. DARCY'S RIVAL is Kara Louise's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. What might happen if Darcy has a young, handsome, well-to-do rival for Elizabeth Bennet? When she visits Charlotte Collins in Hunsford, Elizabeth meets Matthew Richland...

THE MISPER MYSTERY is the eighth entry in J. J. Salkeld's Natural Detective series featuring hill farmer Owen Irvine and the Kendal CID led by Detective Inspectors Andy Hall and Jane Francis. It was published in digital format in 2017. Kendal CID has several ongoing situations. DS Ian Mann...

AN ODD SITUATION is Sophie Lynbrook's variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2018. En route to visit Charles Bingley at Netherfield, Fitzwilliam Darcy is thrown from his horse and suffers a potentially fatal blow to the head...

JACKIE, JANET & LEE: THE SECRET LIVES OF JANET AUCHINCLOSS AND HER DAUGHTERS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS AND LEE RADZIWILL, written by J. Randy Taraborrelli, was published in print and digital formats in 2018. The subtitle succinctly summarizes its content, at least through the seventeen percent...

Deborah Crombie's DREAMING OF THE BONES is the fifth book in her mystery series featuring Detective Inspector Duncan Kincaid and Detective Sergeant Gemma James of Scotland Yard. It was originally published in 1997 and is available in digital format. Victoria Potts Kincaid McClellan, Kincaid's...

Cassandra Grafton's A QUEST FOR MR. DARCY is a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Following his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford, Fitzwilliam Darcy takes his sister Georgiana and her companion Mrs. Annesley on a year-long...

FOLLY AND FORGIVENESS is Lizzy Brandon's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Enraged by Elizabeth's refusal of Mr. Collins's proposal, Mrs. Bennet exchanges harsh words with her daughter and storms off. She falls on the stairs, hits her...

THE CAT WHO WENT UP THE CREEK is one of Liliian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who" series featuring James Mackintosh Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko (formally, Kao K'o Kung) and Yum Yum. It was published in 2002 in digital format, recently available free or inexpensively. Lori Bamba, operator...

TO CAPTURE MR. DARCY is Elizabeth Ann West's variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. While she's at Netherfield in November 1811 nursing Jane, Elizabeth Bennet discovers in the library a chess board ready for play, moves a pawn, and begins the...

PUPPET FOR A CORPSE is the third novel in Dorothy Simpson's Inspector Thanet series. Originally published in 1983, it was reprinted in the INSPECTOR THANET OMNIBUS in 1994. When his housekeeper finds the body of Dr. Arnold Pettifer, his death seems a clear case of suicide, except that everyone...

HIS INCONVENIENT CHOICE is the third novella in Leenie Brown's Choices series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. I did not find a publication date HIS INCONVENIENT CHOICE begins where mid-story immediately following the...

BILBURY VILLAGE is the fifth book in Vernon Coleman's Young Country Doctor series set in North Devon. It is available in a Kindle edition from 2014, but Amazon shows no print editions. I did not find its original publication date. Set during the early 1970s some two years after the National...

PEMBERLEY IN PERIL is Arthel Cake's 2017 variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. More precisely, it uses some of the canonical figures reasonably faithfully, develops some beyond Austen's sketches, introduces several major individuals, and changes the story line almost completely. It is...

A FINE AND BITTER SNOW is the twelfth book in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mystery series. Originally published in 2002, it was reissued in digital format in 2010/ Dan O'Brian may be replaced as head ranger of the Park because he opposes exploratory drilling for oil in the ANWR, contrary to...