The tale of Applebeck Orchard

The tale of Applebeck Orchard

Susan Wittig Albert

Book - 2009

In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss Potter is on the case!

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Subjects
Potter, Beatrix, > 1866-1943 > Fiction.
Women authors > Fiction.
Women artists > Fiction.
Human-animal relationships > Fiction.
Animals > Fiction.
Villages > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
England > Fiction.
Published
New York : Berkley Prime Crime 2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Susan Wittig Albert (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
x, 307 pages : map ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780425229774
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Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* This is the sixth installment in Albert's whimsical mystery series about the life and times of Beatrix Potter. As Miss Potter visits her farm in Near Sawrey in the Land between the Lakes in 1910, some of her small creature friends begin investigating why mean old farmer Harmsworth has barricaded the common pathway through his Applebeck Orchard. Three cats and one dog visit Fritz the Ferret to see if he has some insight into why the farmer would do such a thing. To their surprise, Fritz is not scary at all (he happens to be an artist as good as Miss Potter), and he witnessed the haystack fire that supposedly prompted the farmer to go to such extremes. The ferret and old friend Professor Owl insist the fire was set by a lantern-wielding ghost. Beatrix and her human friends also try to uncover the origins of the haystack fire and convince farmer Harmsworth to remove his barricades. Readers will love getting to know more about ferrets and badgers and the very real Beatrix Potter and her friend Will Heelis. Mixed in with this imaginative story are gentle history lessons about the place of women in the society of that time. The best yet in a consistently charming series.--Coon, Judy Copyright 2009 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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