Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot

By Emily Brightwell

Book Overview

A Mrs. Jeffries Mystery She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon...and keeps him on his toes.? Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes?but they don't know about his secret weapon.? No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries' polished detection skills are up to the task... proving that behind every great man there's a woman--and that a crimesolver's work is never done. A BONE TO PICK Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance?and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief?her life is in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that someone is trying to kill her? That's what Mrs. Jeffries and her staff has to find out. What they discover is a dead body next door, and three attempts on Annabeth's life. It sounds like there's a jealous dog in their midst. Mrs. Jeffries will have to sniff out some clues before the plot thickens?

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425177459
• ISBN13: 9780425177457
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

great mysteries

i love this series...great twists and turns - you will fall in love with the set characters and the ending is not quite what you thought it would be but glad it is... 5 stars for the series.

love this series

This is a very entertaining mystery set in England. It is a good type of book to keep your interest. It is hard to know who did the deed until the very end. The characters are lovable and easy to keep up with.

A cracking good story!

This is a really good story in the Mrs. Jeffries series. In it we have what seems to be a number of unrelated events, but when Mrs. Jeffries and her crew get to work to try to help a woman who feels her life is in danger, they uncover a very heinous murderer. And they do all this as usual without letting on to their beloved Inspector Wistherspoon what they are doing in their efforts to help him solve the mystery. These books are all about the characters and I am getting to know and really love the characters in Upper Edmonton Gardens, and sometimes the plot of the book is a bit weak as Ms. Brightwell delineates her characters. But that is not the case this time. There is a really tight plot and a wonderful mystery. A really strong entry in the series!

A good cozy series

The house on Upper Edmonton Garden belongs to Scotland Yard's Inspector Weatherspoon, a police officer with a homicide resolution rate of 100 %. Except for the participants, no one, including the inspector, realizes that his success is due to his household staff "guiding" him through the quagmire of an investigation.The latest case comes from a previous murder inquiry. Martha Dowling asks the Weatherspoon household for help. Her employee Annabeth Gentry inherited a fortune, a home, and several murder attempts ever since her dog dug up the body of a pick pocket near her new residence. The caretaker of a school near Dowling's estate is also killed. Weatherspoon and his unofficial team begin to make inquiries.This is the sixteenth installment in the delightfully eccentric Victorian mystery series yet the story line retains a fresh thought provoking feel as if MRS. JEFFRIES WEEDS THE PLOT is the first novel. Still, the return of the cast feels like old friends are visiting. The mystery is well drawn even though a hint at the identity of the killer at the midpoint seems a bit early, but it does not take away from Emily Brightwell's wonderful historical amateur sleuth tale.Harriet Klausner