{"product_id":"rose-raventhorpe-investigates-rubies-runaways","title":"Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Rubies \u0026 Runaways","description":"Review\n\nI love this book because of the adventures Rose gets up to! -- Azra, aged 9 ― Reading Zone - Child Review\n\nThis is an excellent addition to the popular genre of historical mysteries for children. Excellently plotted, with realistic and well-rounded characters. ― Parents in Touch\n\nProduct Description\n\nThe Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey\n\nIt's a bitterly cold winter in Yorke and Rose Raventhorpe and her butler Heddsworth are stuck with Rose's unpleasant cousin Herbert, and his equally horrible butler, Bixby.\n\nWhen an orphan boy named Orpheus interrupts the Cathedral's Mistletoe Service, saying that his sister has been kidnapped, Rose vows to help. Solving the mystery will be a lot better than accompanying ghastly Herbert! But the investigation is more complicated than Rose has anticipated and will lead her and her butler friends through fancy tea-rooms, horrible factories, secret underground passages and more...\n\nFireplace pokers are much more dangerous than you might imagine . . .\n\nBook Description\n\nRose Raventhorpe and the secret society of crime-solving butlers are at it again! When an orphan goes missing, will Rose and the butlers be able to find her before she disappears forever?\n\nFor fans of Murder Most Unladylike and The Clockwork Sparrow\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nIt's bitterly cold in Yorke and Rose Raventhorpe and her butler are stuck showing Rose's ghastly cousin Herbert around the city.\n\nDuring a service at Yorke's Cathedral, a young boy bursts in, declaring that his sister has been kidnapped. Soon Rose finds herself tangled up in a mystery involving fake antiques, a malodorous factory and a secret society of chimney sweeps.\n\nTea is brewing and so is murder.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nA former journalist, Janine Beacham has written all her life. She has always loved fairy tales and fantasy, and as a child would make up games for her friends to play at school. Janine once entered a competition where the prize was a real-life butler - which partly inspired the secret society of butlers in the Rose Raventhorpe Investigates series. Janine lives in Western Australia with her family.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39673968853077,"sku":"9781510201316N","price":4.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/91b8e7c6-0363-4a99-ae25-2545384d1f03.jpg?v=1644251043","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/rose-raventhorpe-investigates-rubies-runaways","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}