title: Farm Fresh Murder (A Farmers' Market Mystery)
author:  Paige Shelton 
description: "An appealing heroine...as satisfying as visiting the farmer's market on a sunny afternoon." -- Claudia Bishop
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  MURDER PLOT
  
  
  
  
  
  By
  
  
  
  
  
  Keith McCarthy
  
  
  (writing as Lance Elliot)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Prologue:
  
  
  In the late 1850s, the village of Thornton Heath lies clustered around a green
  on which is a large pond, on one side of which is a public house, the doctor’s
  house on the other. It is part of the manor of Norbury. There is a high street
  of sorts, on which shops owned by a butcher, a baker, a grocer and an
  undertaker are dotted between the houses. Fields and copses provide the
  background whenever the eye should look upwards beyond the habitations; sheep
  and cattle unwittingly make an eye-pleasing backdrop to fill in the gaps.
  There are three farms, although only one of these is visible from the single
  bench on the green, and that is partially hidden by Brigstock hill; the main
  industry is market gardening, although there is some charcoal burning and
  Gillett and Johnson have recently become significant employers in the area as
  they cast church bells for the en