Large print book
Aunt Dimity and the Duke
Call Number
- LARGE TYPE MYSTERY ATHE (OSH)
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Physical Description
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary
Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there's more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke's invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty. The dark rumors surrounding a rock star and the near-death of the duke's beautiful cousin confirm Emma's suspicions, and set her, with Aunt Dimity's ghostly guidance, on the path to Penford Hall's secrets and the pleasure of unexpected love.