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Call No	DownloadURLHTML	Circ Status	Library	Collection	Shelf Location	Periodical Issue	Volume	Barcode	Pub Year
FIC Armstrong		Available	Baden	Fiction				32222002405555	2025

International Standard Book Number	9781645242079
International Standard Book Number	1645242072
Personal Name	Armstrong, Kelley.
Title Statement	Schemes & Scandals.
Imprint	Subterranean Press 20250101.
Summary, Etc.	It's Mallory Atkinson's first Christmas in Scotland. Victorian Scotland, that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century detective learns, Christmas really isn't a thing in Victorian Scotland. It's all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to an early gift of tickets to the event of the season: a Charles Dickens reading. There, they bump into Lady Inglis--the lovely widow who has sent Gray sexy letters trying to entice him back to her bed. Lady Inglis introduces Mallory to Dickens--the meeting of a lifetime--but in return she wants their help. She's being blackmailed. Someone stole letters she wrote to another lover and is threatening to publish them. Mallory isn't sure what to make of Lady Inglis, but no woman deserves that, so she insists on taking the case with or without Gray's help. Growing tension between them soon tells Mallory that Gray is hiding a secret of his own. She has until Hogmanay to uncover the blackmailer...and, hopefully, to put things right with Gray so they can enjoy the holiday together.