01987cam a2200361 4500 536876453 TxAuBib 20211118120000.0 150528t20152013||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015020820 9781410482280 1410482286 TxAuBib Brightwell, Emily. Mrs. Jeffries and the merry gentlemen / Emily Brightwell. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, 2015. ℗2013. 393 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Mrs. Jeffries mysteries Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three of the most influential investors in England--known as the Merry Gentlemen--to be part of his latest enterprise. Despite his mysterious past, Edison is now welcomed in the highest circles and moves with ease among the rich and powerful. Yet a few days before Christmas, he is found sprawled across his doorstep, murdered. Charismatic and charming, Edison was kind to his servants and generous with his friends. Why would someone want him dead? Inspector Witherspoon and his household are all looking forward to the festive season. 20211118. Jeffries, Mrs. (Fictitious character) Fiction. Witherspoon, Gerald (Fictitious character) Fiction. Stockbrokers Crimes against Fiction. Women household employees Fiction. Housekeepers England Fiction. Women detectives England Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Police Great Britain Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Mrs. Jeffries mysteries.