The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries (Mrs. Jeffries, #3)
by Emily Brightwell

This is a mystery based in London in 1889 give or take a year or two. The cover does not fit my brain's description of Mrs Jeffries at all. I don't picture her frumpy at all but slim, and very put together. (Just by the activity and various things mentioned in the book.)

Mrs Jeffries is the head of staff at the home of Inspector Witherspoon. She has a special friendship with him and he likes to get things of his chest in the evening and Mrs J is a good listener and boosts ego too. What he doesn't know is that she is gathering clues and her and her staff then secretly add to those clues and find a way for the Inspector to get them. They help the "Inspector" solve the crime!

This is a good book to get away from the news, bothers of the day, and enjoy a simple but entertaining story. It was easy to figure out who did it but the characters are so charming and appealing I certainly will read more of these stories.
I got this from Chirp. Narration good! ( )

over done ( )

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This was typical Mrs. Jeffries fare, although there may have been even less of the inspector's involvement than ever. A very fast read, with little interest in any of the characters outside of the below stairs crew. ( )

Abigail Hodges is a formidable woman, but she’s taken aback when she and her husband visit a medium who predicts a dark fate. Still she dismisses the prediction as stuff and nonsense and heads home alone. When a servant goes up to wake her for breakfast the next morning, she is dead – killed when she interrupted a burglar … or did she?

I enjoy this cozy mystery series set in Victorian London, and featuring Mrs Hepzibah Jeffries, housekeeper to Inspector Gerald Witherspoon, and her team of servants who all help solve the crimes. Of course the Inspector gets all the credit. It’s a fast read, full of colorful characters, and while I figured out the culprit long before even Mrs Jeffries, I still enjoyed watching her figure it out and gently coaxing the Inspector towards the correct solution to the mystery. ( )