Matilda Hayward is determined to have a career, after all, it is 1888! However, close family friend, Detective Thomas Ashdown would prefer Matilda was nowhere near his cases. Mystery and love afoot! While reporting for the Women’s...
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Miss Matilda Hayward has been assigned her first book review for the Women’s Journal newspaper and she is very much enjoying Mr Linton Turner’s novel, The Pyjama Girl Mystery, until it comes to life. When a young lady is found murdered and left...
Read moreMystery at the Asylum
Miss Matilda Hayward has a nose for a story which serves her well as a writer for the Women’s Journal newspaper. Her beau, Detective Thomas Ashdown, is not quite as enthusiastic about her role. When Matilda’s brother, Elijah, takes up a doctor’s...
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Beautiful muse, Miss Sapphire Reubens, the inspiration for her lover’s latest art exhibition, is missing – items of her clothing found in the river. Worryingly, Miss Matilda Hayward and her fellow writer for the Women’s Journal, Miss Alice...
Read moreMurder in Bridal Lane
Miss Matilda Hayward has a wedding to plan and while ordering her bridal bouquet in Bridal Lane, she finds a note in her sample bouquet requesting a liaison. Innocently believing the note to be a mix-up, Matilda engages her brother, Daniel, to...
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