Phoebe Hartwell trudges back to Greymoor Hall to find Mr Pritchard dead—and a new physician, Dr Gabriel Sinclair, refusing to sign away the truth for Sir Montague’s comfort. Bitter almonds linger on the corpse’s breath, the sleeping draught bottle leads straight to a pantry “half the house” can reach, and discretion becomes its own kind of threat.

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Chapter 1 opens in an apothecary with a pig staging a doorway protest and ends with a summons to Greymoor Hall: Mr Pritchard is dead. Phoebe Hartwell finds herself questioned for the very draught meant to bring sleep, just as Dr Gabriel Sinclair arrives from Edinburgh in a wash of rain and mud. https://www.marisapaxon.com/

This is A Most Murderous Podcast at Lady Paxon's. From Marisa Paxon’s A Courteous Murder at Larkspur Hall comes the vignette Bess: A Short Memorandum Regarding Guest Soap and the Proper Timing of Tea, a first person account inspired by the novel’s world and its strict ideas about order. If you prefer your small luxuries unexamined, do try to keep them out of apron pockets. https://www.marisapaxon.com/

A wrap-up episode to the novel A Courteous Murder at Larkspur Hall. https://www.marisapaxon.com/

Chapter 18, a postscript in which Larkspur settles its village dispute with hedges, and Cecilia cannot resist balancing the last itching questions.

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Practical vows are spoken under suspiciously cooperative weather, and society’s letters arrive to protest that competence has been allowed a coronet. Chapter 17 of A Courteous Murder at Larkspur Hall. https://www.marisapaxon.com/

Chapter 16 of A Courteous Murder at Larkspur Hall. Ashford makes the engagement official in a room full of witnesses, and Cecilia keeps her keys where they belong. When Lady Rosamund’s necklace goes missing, the house learns what it feels like to be searched by someone who values method over manners. https://www.marisapaxon.com/

Chapter 15. The papers print what Larkspur tried to bury, and Ashford attempts the most perilous negotiation of all: asking Cecilia Arden to marry him on terms that keep the house, and him, honest.

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