title: Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes: Two Victorian Holiday Mysteries: A Christmas Homecoming and A Christmas Garland
author:  Anne Perry 
description: [Anne] Perrys Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat.<b><i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Could have been devised by Agatha Christie . . . [Perry is] a modern master.<b><i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i></b><i>, </i>on <i>A Christmas Homecoming</i><br /> <i></i><br /> In Anne Perrys gifted hands, the puzzle plays out brilliantly.<b>Greensboro <i>News &amp; Record</i></b><i>, </i>on <i>A Christmas Garland</i>
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  Ex-Spinster by Christmas
  
  Ever pragmatic, Lady Caroline Ponsby has given up hope she’ll ever receive a
  proposal of marriage from Christopher Perry, the wealthy man she’s adored for
  almost two years. She is determined to be an ex-spinster by Christmas. To that
  end, she has invited a prospective suitor to spend Christmas with her family.
  She knows very well that Lord Brockton would love to get his hands on her
  dowry, and she’d love to be a married woman with a home and family of her own.
  
  The very idea of his Lady Caroline throwing herself away on the likes of the
  vile Lord Brockton rankles Christopher Perry. A pity he cannot offer for her
  himself, but a duke’s daughter is too far above his touch, given his family’s
  humble origins. Nevertheless, Christopher attends the Duke of Aldridge’s
  Christmas house party with the intention of thwarting Lady Caroline’s grave
  misalliance with Brockton. If only he’s not too late . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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