Adventurous Romantic Mysteries

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Airs above the Ground
By Mary Stewart
MYSTERY STEWART
After seeing a newsreel which proves her husband is in Austria, fleeing a circus fire with a blonde beauty, when he should have been in Sweden, Vanessa heads to Austria and embarks on a series of dangerous adventures.

Ruby in the Smoke
By Philip Pullman
YA F PULLMAN
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby while simultaneously uncovering the truth about her heritage. (First book in the Sally Lockhart quartet.)

My Darling Caroline
By Adele Ashworth
ROMANCE ASHWORTH
Determined to study botany despite the conventions that bar nineteenth-century women from professional careers, Lady Caroline Grayson masquerades as a man to further herself, but an arranged marriage brings about unexpected benefits.

Snare of Serpents
By Victoria Holt
ROMANCE HOLT
After Davinia is charged but acquitted murdering her father, she leaves Scotland, aiming to start a new life in South Africa. Life becomes more complicated, though, as she finds herself caught up in the Boer war and enthralled by the dynamic Roger Lestrange.

Secret History of the Pink Carnation
By Lauren Willig
F WILLIG
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.

Seneca Falls Inheritance
By Miriam Grace Monfredo
MYSTERY MONFREDO
Known for her accurately detailed historical mysteries, Monfredo starts her series with this novel. Glynis Tryon, librarian in Seneca Falls, New York, investigates the murder of a woman claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of a recently deceased man prior to the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848.