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The elderly Lord, Edward Chapman, is in a financial hole and literally selling the family silver to keep the place afloat.    Then, when during a charity cricket match, one of his own garden volunteers is murdered, things take a further turn for the worse until an arrest is made. Yet, Alba, who found the dying man and whose blood stained her beautiful white dress, is not convinced the police have arrested the right person. Suddenly she has direction, but will she discover the truth in time?   Set around one man's life, we are taken from 1940s war-torn France, to the airfields of Bomber Command, to the grim interior of a prison and to the homeliness of a village pub in 2002, in a murder-mystery which will appeal to Agatha Christie fans and those who enjoy a more retro-feel to their crime stories.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505007894801,"sku":"GOR011903677","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661561241873,"sku":"GOR012863963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738992615697,"sku":"NGR9781800463134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51105655750929,"sku":"NIN9781800463134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51713111392529,"sku":"GOR014374370","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109280477457,"sku":"GOR011854259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800463138.jpg?v=1751345065"},{"product_id":"sandcastles-by-the-jupiter-hotel-book-martin-hurcomb-9781803136868","title":"Sandcastles by The Jupiter Hotel","description":"Alba White returns.    Holidaying at her favourite Cornish hotel – perched as it is on the cliffs above a remote beautiful, quiet cove – Alba is surprised and embarrassed to bump into an old school friend. Surprised because they have not spoken for years and embarrassed because Alba herself was the cause of their estrangement.   Yet, when the husband of Alba’s former friend fails to return to the hotel one evening, Alba senses there might be an opportunity to help and, in so doing, redeem herself.   For whilst a missing husband does not generate much interest from the other hotel residents or even the small tight-knit members of staff who work at ‘The Jupiter Hotel’, Alba, by contrast, believes something is not right.   A trail of mystery and danger lie ahead but what happens next catches even Alba out.   The trail encompasses a deserted country house, a gifted artist, the hotel’s chef who perhaps is wasted at such a small establishment, two young brothers whom Alba takes under her wing and an old map. All of which, somehow, lead Alba to the truth. However, she has to put herself in harm’s way to get there.   Or does everything, in the end, come down to the turn of a card?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555214237969,"sku":"GOR013400201","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1803136863.jpg?v=1751217500"},{"product_id":"sunday-falling-book-martin-hurcomb-9781836283812","title":"Sunday Falling","description":"In a landscape where medieval kings used to hunt, lime trees cast thankful shadows on a hot June day, an actress strolls around practising her lines and the ‘Earl of Clarendon’ public house offers sanctuary, fine fare and just a hint of deviousness, Alba White is staying at Kingsbourne Manor as a guest of Dr John Sunday.   It sounded idyllic when she had been invited but now she is here, the reality is anything but idyllic; because the other guests, as well as the villagers themselves, have taken none too kindly to Dr John’s wealth nor his new flame.   As Alba’s stay at Kingsbourne Manor progresses from the straightforward unwelcome, to the unpleasant and finally, most dramatically, to disaster, she wishes she had never come. Indeed, her journey to the house had almost been trying to tell her to stay away. Yet, she had come and it falls to Alba to hunt out the truth as to what has happened.   But is the truth, ultimately, what Alba should have been searching for?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51629862748433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51629862977809,"sku":"NGR9781836283812","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53004218466577,"sku":"GOR014690386","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1836283814.jpg?v=1753368455"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/alba-white-mysteries-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}