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    "title": "A Witness to Murder",
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    "collection_title": "A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery",
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    "description": "A medieval house, a dead body and some rather suspicious chocolate fudge? Call for Lady Swift!\n\nAutumn, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, accidental amateur detective and retired explorer, is determined to take a break from investigating murders. So when a local politician dies suddenly at an elegant dinner party at Farrington Manor, she tries her hardest not to listen to the raft of rumours around the village that he might have been poisoned by the fudge. It\u2019s the anniversary of the disappearance of her beloved parents and she\u2019s promised herself not to get mixed up with any more mysteries. She isn\u2019t sure they\u2019d have approved.\n\nBut when she arrives home to discover that Mrs Pitkin, the kindly cook from Farrington Manor, has been dismissed without wage or reference because the police consider her a suspect, Eleanor knows she needs to act. If there was a murder, then she needs to track down the culprit and clear Mrs Pitkin\u2019s name.\n\nAccompanied by her faithful partner in crime, Gladstone the bulldog, who has the best nose for sniffing out bones in the country, Eleanor sets out to find the killer. And when another body turns up and she finds poisoned fudge in the victim\u2019s house, Eleanor knows she\u2019s on the right track. But can she sort the truth from the lies before she becomes a witness to another murder \u2013 this time rather closer to home?\n\nAn utterly charming cozy mystery! Warm and witty, fans of Agatha Christie, TE Kinsey and LB Hathaway will be totally hooked.",
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