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The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in declineits masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable...
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011].
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"It's 1919, and the 'War to End All Wars' has been won. But there is no peace for Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France shell-shocked and tormented by the ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing an order. Escaping into his work to save his sanity, Rutledge investigates the murder of a popular colonel in Warwickshire and his alleged killer, a decorated war hero and close friend...
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2012
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A twelve-part British television dramatization of Edith Holden's bestselling book, exploring the character of the woman who wrote Nature Notes for 1906 and the world she new. Each episode is a celebration of a month in 1906 and is described by Edith with the prose, poetry, and watercolor illustrations that made her book popular.
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