Finally! Another book by Lynn Florkiewicz! Lord James Harrington and the New Year's Eve Mystery has Lord Harrington and his wife looking forward to the New Year's Eve ball of 1959. The start of a new decade should be most exciting! To add to the fun, a 'Wild West Show' is touring the UK and includes a collection of American Indian artifacts. There is extreme interest shown in this collection ... but why? They are of no value, the buyer knew this, the seller knew this, they are recently made items merely to show what the originals looked like. To try and determine if there's been, say, a swap, the collection is appraised ... twice ... and even X-rayed ... they are of NO value. So, why such intense interest? This has been a fun series!

A recommendation from Canadian Reader took me to Murder is Bad Manners, by Robin Stevens. It is the first in her Wells & Wong Mystery series. It takes place in a boarding school for girls in 1934. Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells have set up their very own detective agency ... but need a mystery to solve. Then (of course) a body is found ... and vanishes .... it was one of the teachers (who many thing was promoted when she shouldn't have been). Can they find the body, and figure out the murderer? This is a tween read, so it didn't take very long, but it was a good read. :-)

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