title: Bloody Lessons: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery
author:  M. Louisa Locke 
description: M. Louisa Locke is a retired professor of U.S. and Womens History, who has embarked on a second career as an historical fiction writer. Her series of historical mysteries set in Victorian San Francisco are based on Locke's doctoral research on western working women, and Maids of Misfortune, Uneasy Spirits, and Bloody Lessons, feature Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who together investigate murders and other crimes. Her short stories, Dandy Detects and The Miss Moffets Mend a Marriage, give secondary characters from this series a chance to get involved in their own minor mysteries. Locke is an active member in the Alliance of Independent Authors and a Director of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative. For more about M. Louisa Locke and her work, see http://mlouisalocke.com/
zlib_text: **Murder at Locke Abbey**
  
  by
  
  Catherine Winchester
  
    
  
   **Murder at Locke Abbey**
  
  by Catherine Winchester
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents, other
  than those clearly in the public domain, are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, business establishments or events is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © Catherine Winchester 2014. All rights reserved.
  
  British English Version
  
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  _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Chapter 