Mollie Hardwick Livres

Descriptions and synopses of Dickens' works and data on the people and places mentioned in his writings accompany information on his private life, family, friends, and associates

When Doran Fairweather's feckless partner shows up out of nowhere with a rare clock, Doran doesn't trust the explanation and travels to return it. With her gentleman friend, the vicar, traveling with her, they mix business with pleasure until a gypsy's mysterious warning becomes clear--and dangerous....

Mending her heart after a bad love affair, Doran Fairweather loves her new life in a tiny Kent county village. Her antiques business is doing well and her low-key romance with the young vicar is quite pleasant. Then a stranger, Mr. Mumbray arrives, bringing with him a malignant presence that causes the villagers to flee, cringe, and sicken. Only Doran and the vicar dare defy the evil they sense invading their lives, but death and destruction are running wild. And neither they--nor the malevolent Mr. Mumbray himself--will be spared....

"As usual, Hardwick provides suitable literary repartee." BOOKLIST Doran Fairweather is beginning to enjoy the task of appraising family treasures at a two-day Antiques Roadshow, basking in the luxury of Caxton Manor. Then the snow starts falling, the roads are blocked, the phones go out of order...and someone is murdered. With the police unavailable, Doran does her best to investigate, and gradually discovers that among her attracative, sophisticated colleagues there is one who bears the hallmark of authentic evil....

"The story's lively characters, antique lore, tension-laden plot, and feisty heroine add up to amiable entertainment."THE KIRKUS REVIEWSWhen antiques dealer Doran Fairweather purchases an ancient limewood carving of a rosy-lipped cherub in flight for her baby's nursery, it seems she excites a lot of unwanted interest. Someone ransacks her home for it, while she and her family are asleep, and anonymous collectors offer outrageous prices for the carving and utter curses when they are refused. Now Doran must use her investigative brilliance to save her family from these mounting acts of terror. Staunchly supported by her husband Rodney, and inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll, Doran risks her life and everything she loves in an all-or-nothing gamble with a madman....

Light comedy suddenly turns to dark murder when personalities clash in the parish production of Gilbert and Sullivan. Now antique dealer Doran Fairweather, to distract herself from a crisis in her marriage to ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, immerses herself in the shocking case, working to untangle a web of motive and plot worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan themselves before the curtain falls . . . on her.

Suffering from malaise after a miscarriage and the loss of her business partner to a more lucrative job, Doran hopes to spark new interest in her shop by branching into Pre-Raphaelite work ; she is soon surprised to have a number of rare Rossetti drawings fall into her possession. Obsessed with Rossetti's dreaming figures and fascinated by a mysterious, eccentric man who entrusts her with one apparently rare artwork, Doran quickly links the art to murder when two bodies turn up posed in imitation of the Rossetti models.

A formal introduction to the Bellamys of 165 Eaton Place explores the private lives of the beautiful Lady Marjorie, her politician husband Richard, and their devoted staff of servants during the Edwardian era.