The tale of Applebeck Orchard

In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the Lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss Potter is on the case.

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Susan Wittig Albert was born in Illinois in 1940. In 1985, she changed careers from working as the vice president and an English professor at Texas State University to becoming a full-time writer.

During the mid- to late-1980s, Albert was a ghostwriter for the Nancy Drew mystery series. She wrote the acclaimed "Work of Her Own: How Women Create Success and Fulfillment off the Traditional Career Track" in 1992. Under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, Albert and her husband, Bill Albert, co-authored a twelve-volume mystery series set in late Victorian/Edwardian England.

Albert writes the bestselling China Bayles mystery series, which features as its main character a Texas herbalist who had been a criminal attorney in Houston. Albert also writes the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter historical fantasy series, which is set in England during the early twentieth century.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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*Starred Review* This is the sixth installment in Albert's whimsical mystery series about the life and times of Beatrix Potter. As Miss Potter visits her farm in Near Sawrey in the Land between the Lakes in 1910, some of her small creature friends begin investigating why mean old farmer Harmsworth has barricaded the common pathway through his Applebeck Orchard. Three cats and one dog visit Fritz the Ferret to see if he has some insight into why the farmer would do such a thing. To their surprise, Fritz is not scary at all (he happens to be an artist as good as Miss Potter), and he witnessed the haystack fire that supposedly prompted the farmer to go to such extremes. The ferret and old friend Professor Owl insist the fire was set by a lantern-wielding ghost. Beatrix and her human friends also try to uncover the origins of the haystack fire and convince farmer Harmsworth to remove his barricades. Readers will love getting to know more about ferrets and badgers and the very real Beatrix Potter and her friend Will Heelis. Mixed in with this imaginative story are gentle history lessons about the place of women in the society of that time. The best yet in a consistently charming series.--Coon, Judy Copyright 2009 Booklist

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