Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

Name: Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread
Author: Lynn Knight
ISBN: 9780857506467

by Lynn Knight

ISBN: 9780857506467

Published: 2025-03

Fiction

INTRODUCING ROSE BURNHAM: DESIGNER, DRESSMAKER . . . DETECTIVE? 'A joy of a read. A superbly researched story of post-WW1 female friendship chock-a-block with characters you'll cheer on to the very last page, I read it cover to cover in a day' --AJ Pearce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird South-east London, 1925. Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room's closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor. Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as...

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