| Date: 14 June 2011, 12:52
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Product Description: A headmistress gets a primer in murder in the third Bellehaven House mystery.
Lord Stalham has claimed innocence in the murder of his father, even after they've hanged him. Now Stalham's ghost is haunting Meredith Llewellyn. The headmistress needs her sleep, so she sets out for the truth-and discovers a high-society scandal.
I can't say I'm very surprised to learn that this is the final book in this series, which never seemed to quite know what it wanted to be. I loved the author's Pennyfoot Hotel series, and was very disappointed when she left that one for the Manor House Mysteries. The secondary characters in the Hotel series were routinely excellent, and made the reader want to know more about them --and their lives off-stage, so to speak. The setting lent itself to a variety of plots, which the author provided with humor and sensitivity. The Manor House series was problematic, too, (at least for me) but the characters were as endearing as the Hotel staff. It was fun to see who would cause the most trouble this time around or what new adventures might be unveiled.
I did read all three of the Bellehaven House Series, but combining mystery, paranormal and romance in one relatively short book is really tricky. The premise of the first one made a certain amount of sense -- after all, the ghost had been a teacher at the school. The second book's ghost was rather far out, but not nearly as far out as this third book's spectre. Ghosts that have no connection to the house or anyone living/working there seemed not very believable to me.
Wrong-headed Olivia really needed a good set-down, which she never received, so she kept on being wrong-headed, and dragging poor Grace down right along with her. I'm sure that had there been another book, the school would have had to be closed because of the turmoil caused by these would-be suffragettes. But perhaps then, too, Head Mistress Meredith would have had to decide between her two possible suitors, the owner Stuart or the policeman Edward.
I couldn't understand why as Head Mistress, she couldn't manage to exert her authority enough to be rid of the two totally unfit characters Platt/Pratt and Miss Montrose. The other two teachers, Felicity and Essie fit perfectly into their environment. And the girl students? Well, girls will be girls.
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