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Death Beside the Seaside (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery Book 6) by [T E Kinsey]

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July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing—and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve.

The first to disappear is Dr Goddard, a scientist doing something terribly top-secret for the government. Gone too are his strongbox and its mysterious contents. By the time Lady Hardcastle has questioned the horde of international guests, her number-one suspect has been dispatched in grisly circumstances—and then the others start vanishing too.

As the case begins to look like a matter of national security, Lady Hardcastle takes advice from her brother in the secret service. But could there be an even more personal connection at play? To solve the case, Lady Hardcastle may face a shocking discovery of her own.

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22 October 2019
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T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at Bristol University. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. After helping to raise three children, learning to scuba dive and to play the drums and the mandolin (though never, disappointingly, all at the same time), he decided the time was right to get back to writing. Death Beside the Seaside is the sixth novel in a series of mysteries starring Lady Hardcastle. There is also a short story, “Christmas at The Grange”. His website is at tekinsey.uk and you can follow him on Twitter — @tekinsey — as well as on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey.

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July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (22 October 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at the University of Bristol. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. And now he writes historical murder mysteries. In his spare time he plays the drums (quite badly, by all accounts). ‘The Fatal Flying Affair’ is the seventh novel in a series of mysteries starring Lady Hardcastle (there's also a short story, ‘Christmas at The Grange’). His website is at tekinsey.uk and you can follow him on Twitter—@tekinsey—as well as on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey and Instagram – @tekinseymysteries

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International espionage with villains galore.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2022

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Lady Hardcastle and Flo are surrounded by foreign spies and need to use all of their experience and skills to track a mysterious strongbox as it exchanges hands from one spy to another. Bodies multiply. Meanwhile, British Secret Service minions are ruthlessly mocked and subverted by our "amateur" detectives. This adventure clearly debunks the eccentric persona of Lady Hardcastle and solidifies the credentials of Flo as an intimidating combatant. Moving the setting away from Bristol and their village also allows the introduction of new, more cosmopolitan, and professionally ruthless, villains. These variations refresh the series while maintaining and expanding our affection and respect for the two heroines.

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Christina M

Murder at the seaside

Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2021

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As a non Brit, I'd heard of Weston Super Mare but never knew where it was, so I was quite surprised to find it the location of choice for Lady Hardcastle and Flo to spend a vacation. Being used to Australian beaches, it doesn't sound like a great place to stay but needs must, I guess.

Anyway, there are spies and derring-do a plenty in this novel, and a few mysteries cleared up, and it's a pleasant way to spend an afternoon's reading time.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2022

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I have read all the books in this series and have thoroughly enjoyed each one. They are interesting in their facts and plots and the characters are easily taken to heart. I look forward to any more, hope there will be many.
From someone who reads a lot of books, I really urge anyone to read this author. Thoroughly entertaining!

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Enjoyable.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 April 2020

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In "Death Beside the Seaside" Flo and Lady Hardcastle set of on a jaunt to a seaside hotel.However they are soon surrounded by dead bodies and spies.T.E.Kinsey has checked his historical facts and written a great yarn.

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Esther

Interesting

Reviewed in Australia on 7 December 2020

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A very classic plot. I do agree with another reviewer that it was a bit slow but still enjoyed it very much. Sometimes I wish I could join the two ladies but then I think of the corset and rather live now.

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So that's where it all started!

Reviewed in Australia on 5 October 2020

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Very enjoyable period whodunnit with likeable and realistic characters, hamming it up with some good humour. A very well done light read. It is amazing the number of innovations that Lady Hardcastle presented to the world!

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Caroline Lloyd

"Cosy" murder mysteries

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2020

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I really enjoy the silly repartee between the main characters of these enjoyable mysteries.

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Love these two

Reviewed in Australia on 11 November 2019

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Enjoyed this joint to the seaside. Lots of fun on the pier, several jolly murders, a kidnap, some great use of the eastern art of self-defence. All in all a great read

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The tide maybe out, but there’s a sea of bodies!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2019

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A trip to Weston-Super-Mare has the daring duo dusting-off their espionage skills – 5 Stars

Having finally decided to accede to Florence’s many requests to spend time at the seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare, Lady Emily Hardcastle announces they are booked-in to the town’s Steep Holm View hotel for a few days holiday. It doesn’t take long though before the daring duo suspect the hotel’s eclectic mix of international visitors isn’t just a happy accident. With thoughts of donkey rides and end-of-pier shows put aside, Lady Hardcastle and Flo find themselves drawn into a deadly series of events…

The plot to this is full of intrigue, and the body count stacks-up at an alarming rate. As with all the books, a dry sense of tongue-in-cheek humour is evident throughout, and there is enough historical detail (both accurate, and skilfully manipulated) to keep even the most studious on their toes. Another of the highlights for me, is that the true nature of the relationship between Lady Hardcastle and Florence Armstrong is further explained during more revelations about their past exploits. However, I still find this aspect of the novels remains tantalisingly open to interpretation!

This, the sixth book of this series is every bit as good as the first. It is a complete story in its own right, but if you’re new to the Lady Hardcastle mysteries, I would recommend starting with the first book ‘A Quite Life in the Country’, not only because there is a thread that runs through the series, but also because if you enjoy the first book, I’m pretty sure you’ll want to read the whole series anyway. I’ve read them all, and there’s not one that’s disappointed - 5 Star reads all the way.

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Philip Meers

A good read but a silly story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2022

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I divide my reading so that I read a nonfiction then a fiction book. This made an entertaining read after a book that required a lot of thinking. However, although I enjoyed it, it was rather a silly storyline.

Emily Hardcastle and Flo Armstrong are likeable characters, with an interesting relationship, a little like Peter Wimsey and Bunter. I think Flo has, in this book, lost her "cor blimey govner" (with a Welsh accent) ways, and is all the better for that.

The setting entertained me because I know Weston-super-Mare well, so I was able to visualise what the characters were seeing.

Some of the characters were somewhat wooden and two dimensional, though, to be honest, as far as the story was concerned, they were the equivalent of "third spear carrier". They were necessary padding, but not front and centre.

Previous books gave more than a passing nod to the Golden Age of the Whodunit, but this one had more of the flavour of the last few Sherlock Holmes stories.

I gave previous books 5*, but this 4* simply because I felt that the story, though amusing, was more far fetched than the others. It was funny, along the lines of the film "The Assassination Bureau", but at the same time, a little annoying.

Despite the above, I still recommend the book. It is an easy read, well crafted, well researched, and requires little brain power, so a good book if you just want to settle down quietly and relax.

G. Leader

Love this series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2022

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I am realy enjoying reading this series of books. However htere are one or two discrepancies for example: £5 in 1910 is worth £627.54 today, Dr Goddard had just under £6 on his nightstand, that was an awful lot of money, would he have that lying around? Lady Hardcastle said he could not afford the hotel, clearly he could. £6 was over £750 in todays money. Jakob gave a small boy half a crown to deliver a message to the hotel, that is equivalent to just under £16 today, really; don’t think so.
Emily looked at her watch when Mr Primrose asked do you know what time it is, in previous books it's been stated she did not own a watch as she hated them, they only had clocks in the house, which they were never sure were correct, so how come she miraculously had a watch?
Harry gave Mr Primrose £10, that is the equivalent of £1,255 today, really? Why on earth would he have so much in his wallet.
My advice is check what it would be worth today, £6 is nothing today but in 1910 it was an awful lot of money.

fellwalker46

Cozy entertaining escapism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2019

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Once again Kinsey has produced the perfect antidote to dark detective thrillers with their graphic violence, sex, relentless cliff edges and grim reality. For those willing to suspend disbelief it offers a welcome escape to a charming, gently humorous world of improbable spies in a bygone era. An entertaining, enjoyable and undemanding read to while away a few hours at the fireside with toasted crumpets and cocoa. Good quality prose, believable well researched setting, authentic sense of period, and a sufficiently interesting if somewhat transparent plot to pull the reader along.

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Reading For Escape

Great tale with humour.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2022

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I love the humour that accompanies this series, the banter between the two main characters mixed with the characters themselves. I also love the bits of history about the characters which is thrown in which explains the characters abilities to solve the mysteries and look after themselves. For me this was a great story which kept me interested from start to finish. Oh and a couple of laugh out loud moments one of which caught me in McDonalds. Another great tale.

Who are these tales aimed at? People who like a little light relief with their mysteries and loveable characters who grow on you.

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