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  <title><![CDATA[Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery]]></title>
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  <default-description>For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!

On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband--a
gentleman of mature years--is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl's nephew of adultery--and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help. And Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that leads all the way to Newgate Prison and the House of Lords - a trail that may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy. </default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">1</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">12</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">1996</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stephanie Barron]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 21 07:34:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series of fictional mysteries solved by Jane Austen are charming and witty and a whole lot of fun for people who can't get enough Jane Austen.  You need a healthy dose of girl-geekness to love these, but luckily I have plenty to spare.  Usually I dislike mysteries, but these have enough Austen ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/360578">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 16:14:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book.  It was well-written and fast-paced, with lots of lovely Georgian detail about dress, manners, and events.  The footnotes explain some of the more arcane terms.  I will probably end up reading all of these novels in which Jane Austen herself turns sleuth.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37909469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12588986">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Austen solves mysteries!  The first half is very stilted and badly written.  The author is clearly nervous and uncomfortable writing Regency-era dialog.  The characters are boring cliches.  Everyone compliments Austen on her wit, but she never said anything remotely clever.  In the second half,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12588986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49866057">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good mystery element - but attempting to write in the voice of Jane Austen is ... ambitious.]]></body>
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    <review id="43451774">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the later volumes are of a slightly higher quality than the first two (this one being the first).  There is not as much depth to Jane here, which does make sense considering her acquaintance with mystery and violent death only begins with this book.  But it is delightful to see her encounter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43451774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45564247">
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 06 10:22:59 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor is the first in a series of novels that purports to be based on &quot;long lost&quot; Austen journals -- journals where, shockingly enough, Jane is revealed to have an aptitude for solving crimes. Perhaps even more shocking is how well the concept works in Barro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45564247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64400801">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I have very little experience in reading or reviewing mystery books, so I am not really confident that I know what makes a good mystery novel. That being said, I enjoyed reading Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor but did not feel that it created enough suspense or intellectual puzzlemen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64400801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58740161">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Austen tackles 19th century English society and manners in her novels; Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen tackles society, manners, and murder. In Barron’s Jane Austen mystery series, she attempts a daunting task—to mimic Jane Austen’s literary style with all its gentility, formality, elega...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58740161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56257616">
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  <read_at>Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really like the premise of this book, the idea of Barron finding the lost journals and letters of Jane Austen in an attic in America and determining to edit and publish them. Farfetched, but as it has nothing to do with the story except serve as an explanation of sorts for the source of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56257616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56845634">
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I might have given this book a three except for the Jane Austen tie-in. My grandmother knows I really like Jane Austen so she gets me Jane Austen related books. I have looked forward to the two she's given me, until I read them and then I was annoyed with them. I am swiftly coming to the conclusion ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56845634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7084336">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was excited by the premise behind this novel - but the telling didn't match the idea. The theory is that some of Jane Austen's personal diaries and letters have been recovered and in them she goes about her normal life but is interrupted by mysteries. Sounds fun - but it was pretty boring. The rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7084336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59830851">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 20:15:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised at much I enjoyed this book. It was chosen as a book club selection this month and I wasn't really quite sure what to make of it. However, once I invested myself in it, I found I really liked it. <br/><br/>Jane is the main character and she is solving the mystery of two murders. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59830851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63976771">
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephanie Barron has done such a great job of writing in the style of Jane Austen that it's easy to forget this isn't a Jane Austen novel. What a fun read, footnotes and all. While it's not clear that the information in the footnotes is based on what was factual at the time the novel was set, it doe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63976771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47652826">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephanie Barron has created a series where Jane Austen, our heroine, gets caught up in continuous mayhem, murder, and mystery. Tthis first book of the series takes place right after Jane accepted and then the next day rejected a marriage proposal from Harris Bigg-Wither. And so she leaves their hom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47652826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27707503">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am positively nuts about this series.  The language of Austen's work is so spot-on and the characters so well-developed that the reader feels drawn into this world and maybe even is a bit disoriented when putting the book down.  If you've read all (or not all, like me) of Austen's writing, this se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27707503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband—a gentleman of mature years—is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26627283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few of my dear readers may remember that I reviewed the second installment of this series several years ago. Most of you probably don’t. Regardless, spurred on by the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries, I decided to revisit this series and finally start from the beginning. I wasn’t disappointed. Bar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20474987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I thought the writing was well done and the story believable. The fact that it's supposed to be Jane Austen was not even noticed. There were some lines that came right out of Pride &amp; Prejudice that I did notice but as the book progressed, either it was toned ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67028644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Jane Austen's books, but it's been years since I've read any, so the language of Stephanie Barron's book was difficult.  I stumbled over the words quite often, but now that I've finished reading it I find myself thinking in that turn of the century prose, so i guess it just takes practice.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61600413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a huge fan of Jane Austen, I had hoped to enjoy this more than I did.  In general, Austen was a better writer than she is a character.  The pace of the book is sporadic and the red herrings obvious.  One of the things I enjoy most about Austen is her detachment from the great affairs of her age a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51603256">more...</a>]]></body>
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