Frances Doughty

Murder at the Bayswater Bicycle Club

By Mal McEwan

10 May, 2018

Written by Linda Stratmann — Summer, 1882, and Frances Doughty is tasked to go undercover at the annual meeting of the Bayswater Bicycle Club at the Goldsmith’s Cricket Ground in East Acton, London. There is more than an element of mystery about the private detective’s…

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Death in Bayswater by Linda Stratmann

By spriteby

17 April, 2016

The Frances Doughty mysteries are no stranger to Crime Fiction Lover. Back in December 2014, we reviewed An Appetite for Murder, and our radar also picked up the fifth book in the series, The Children of Silence last May. Death in Bayswater finds London’s only female…

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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

By DeathBecomesHer

3 May, 2015

There seems to be a great appetite for crime fiction set in Victorian times at the moment, and we’ve recently reviewed The Strings of Murder, The Infidel Stain and, of course, the strangely titled Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear. In The Children of…

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An Appetite for Murder by Linda Stratmann

By spriteby

27 December, 2014

Private detective Frances Doughty first arrived in our bookshops in April 2011 in The Poisonous Seed. Set in 1880, the teenage sleuth embarked on her maiden case when one of her father’s wealthy customers died after drinking medicine he dispensed. The creator of the character,…

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