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    A Death on the way to Portsmouth: A Lady of Ashes Mystery
    A Death on the way to Portsmouth: A Lady of Ashes Mystery
    A Death on the way to Portsmouth: A Lady of Ashes Mystery
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    A Death on the way to Portsmouth: A Lady of Ashes Mystery

    By Christine Trent

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    Violet Harper might be fearless when it comes to caring for the dead, but she trembles at the thought of boarding trains—those behemoths of belching smoke and screeching brakes.  Nevertheless, she must travel via one of these beasts from Southampton to Portsmouth.  Her anxiety turns into horror when a fellow passenger is murdered as the train carriage enters a tunnel.  Can Violet discover who the murderer is before the train reaches its next stop? 

    Note: this is a short story, not a full-length novel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwopence Press, LLC
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9781944745028
    A Death on the way to Portsmouth: A Lady of Ashes Mystery
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    Christine Trent

    Christine Trent is the author of the Lady of Ashes Victorian historical-mystery series. When she isn't writing, she can be found scrapbooking, planning a trip to England, or haunting bookstores. She lives in the Mid-Atlantic region with her husband, Jon, and five cats, Caesar, Claudia, Livia, Marcus, and Octavian. For more information, visit www.ChristineTrent.com.

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      A Death on the way to Portsmouth - Christine Trent

      A Death on the Way to Portsmouth

      A Lady of Ashes Short Story

      Christine Trent

      TWOPENCE PRESS

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      About the Author

      TWOPENCE PRESS books are published by

      Twopence Press, LLC

      P.O. Box 1753

      Leonardtown, Maryland 20650

      Copyright © 2018 by Christine Trent

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Cover Design & Interior Format by The Killion Group, Inc.

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      Violet Harper despised trains . She had no animosity for their smoke-belching stacks, nor their screeching brakes, nor even their oblong black carriages that should remind any thinking person of wheeled coffins.

      No, the entire problem with trains was that Violet Harper, an undertaker who had handled hundreds of corpses in her thirty-seven years of living, had been terrified of trains ever since she had narrowly escaped her own demise in a train crash nine years ago.

      Violet absentmindedly reached for her right arm, which had been badly scalded by steam in the wreck, and continued to remind her of the accident with its periodic spasms and twinges.

      Yet here she was, standing at

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