The Sale at Marnhope
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“The estate goes to auction before the inquest closes — and a lot appears in the catalogue that was never in the house.”
The Marnhope estate goes under the hammer before the inquest has even concluded. Probate valuer Nell Bardsley certifies the house holds no picture of any consequence — and then the auction catalogue arrives, listing a six-figure painting under the dead woman's name, a lot that was never in the house she cleared. The only record that can stop the hammer falling is the one Nell wrote herself.
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How it begins
The cabinet was Edwardian and honest and worth less than the woman's family believed, which was the ordinary condition of the objects Nell Bardsley was paid to be truthful about, and she had said so as gently as the truth allowed.
The daughter, whose name was Mrs Sowden and who had driven up from Preston that morning to be present, looked at the cabinet the way people looked at the pieces they had grown up dusting. 'My mother always kept the good glass in it.'
Is this your kind of book?
The Sale at Marnhope is the literary probate mystery — a probate valuer works a dead stranger’s house while the coroner works the death. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
This is Book Three of The Thrushmere Inquests. Each book closes its own case, so it can be read on its own — but the series is built to be read in order, and starting at The Clearance at Cawdermere means the connections land the way they were written.
The The Thrushmere Inquests in order
- The Clearance at Cawdermerefree
- The Body from Salterby$5.99
- The Sale at Marnhope$5.99 · you are here
- The Open Verdict at Culverby$5.99
- The Last Tenant at Kessingholt$5.99
- The Last Verdict at Thrushmere$5.99
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