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Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar (Laetitia Rodd, Bk 2)
Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar - Laetitia Rodd, Bk 2 Author:Kate Saunders In 1851, private detective Leetitia Rudd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request fror her services. Mrs. Rudd's neighbor, Jacob Welland, is reclusive, rich gentleman dying of consumption and he wants Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. — Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brili... more »liant, eccentric and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the ocuntryside. But the last sighting was ten yeas before -- when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins the search for the wandering scholar. But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark and dangerous lurking in the beautiful English countryside.« less