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Kate Shackleton's niece, Harriet, was recovering from diphtheria and Kate decided to take her away to the country for a fortnight to help her recuperate. Her's friend - and would-be suitor - Dr Lucian Simonson had inherited a house in Langcliffe from his aunt Freda and Kate was pleased to accept the offer of the property for a couple of weeks. There was a hidden message that she might also see if she'd like to make her residence there more permanent, but Kate was in no hurry to make her mind up about remarriage. Her private investigations suited her well and it wasn't long before she was approached to look into a crime which had troubled Lucian's Aunt Freda. The old lady had witnessed a murder, but her evidence was dismissed and she went to her grave believing that the wrong man had gone to the gallows.
I'm often asked what I read for enjoyment, which books I would choose to take away on holiday with me. This year the answer was simple: with a Kate Shackleton mystery to hand, we set off for Yorkshire's east coast - and I had a niggling regret that we weren't heading for the Settle area because one of the many wonderful points about Frances Brody's Kate Shackleton stories is that you can walk the book. Her research into suitable locations for her mysteries is meticulous and you get a real taste of what the area was like in the twenties. In fact you get a feeling for the twenties - the scourge that was diphtheria, the way people lived and the attitudes.
