Women from all around the country have joined together to fight for the vote. But when one of them is killed, only amateur sleuth Mabel Canning can halt a murderer's campaign...
Fellbridge Hall, England: Mabel Canning is thrilled to be organising a suffragette conference. But when all the women are settled in the sprawling country mansion, she barely has time for a sip of gin before chaos ensues. Leading suffragette Annie Harkin has been found murdered in her bed, clutching a white feather in her outstretched hand...
As the guests clamour for justice for Annie, young police officers Ned and Ted arrive in time to trip over the banners and be roundly ignored. And with a killer on the loose, the suffragettes swiftly vote for Mabel and her pals to take control. When it comes to solving mysteries, there's nobody equal to the London Ladies' Murder Club!
But soon it's clear many a suffragette is hiding a secret under her sash. Eccentric veteran of the cause Dorothea Goose is acting rather flighty; why is she so afraid of the police? Would Annie's rival go this far to replace her as leader? Or has someone taken a life to stop the cause of women's lib? Then Mabel uncovers what happened to Annie's closest comrade in the years before the war, and she is sure the answers lie in the past. But will Mabel be elected as the killer's next victim? Or can she crack the case and save the fight for Votes for Women?
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Mabel Canning stood eye-to-eye with Dorothea Goose in the chill air of Fellbridge Hall, a great Georgian country house with Regency embellishments, Victorian add-on's and Edwardian modernisations yet still with a touch of the medieval about it. (ONE, FELLBRIDGE HALL, SUSSEX, APRIL 1922)
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I'm a fan of the author and have read other books in the series so was looking forward to Murder of a Suffragette. I enjoyed this a bit more than other books in the series as the author becomes more comfortable with the character and setting and really gets into her stride. Mabel is a great character. I've liked her since the first book and she goes from strength to strength. The introduction of her family was delightful. I enjoyed the way the plot develops and the fact I didn't know who the killer is until the author wanted me to know. I'd recommend this.