"The Margin"

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London, 1921. Geoffrey Ashford is dead. His widow, Penelope, is doing what widows do — sorting the study, cataloguing four thousand books shelved by dynasty, and delivering his life's work to the British Museum in labelled boxes. Then the Museum asks a question about an object Geoffrey approved for purchase. A small blue figure, too perfect, too pristine — and a letter of authentication that appears to say exactly what it should. Except that someone has trimmed the margin. Armed with a borrowed ruler, an observant junior cataloguer named Clara, and twenty-three years of watching her husband read what wasn't there, Penelope follows a single missing word from a dealer's office on Bond Street to a confrontation that changes everything she believed about what she is capable of. The Margin is a complete 10,000-word mystery and the prequel to The Curse of the Mena House, the first novel in The Antiquities Mysteries series. Download it free and discover why Lady Penelope Ashford went to Egypt — and what she was already beginning to see before she arrived. For fans of Agatha Christie, Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher, Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs, and Rhys Bowen's Royal Spyness series.