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Staff Pick
All Men Glad and Wise: A Mystery
Current price:
$17.99
Publication Date: April 19th, 2022
Publisher:
Rootstock Publishing
ISBN:
9781578690794
Pages:
242
Bear Pond Books of Montpelier
1 on hand, as of Apr 27 3:08pm
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Staff Reviews
A really fun romp by Vermont author Laura Stevenson! All Men Glad and Wise is meticulously researched and well-written, and moves along at a quick pace. For fans of Downton Abbey, but this English estate has more horses, secrets, and....murders!
—
Sam
Description
2023 Global Book Awards Finalist (Historical Fiction)
2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Mystery-Adult Fiction)
2022 IPNE Finalist (Genre Fiction)
The steward of Willingford Hall was murdered in the Dell on 12 March 1919. I found his body because I'd been thrown by a horse. It's difficult to say which event was more unlikely.
Willingford Hall stable lad Harry Green is about to make a discovery even more unlikely than a corpse.
With the estate near bankruptcy and the rise of automobiles fast replacing horse travel, Harry, a young woman passing as a lad, will soon be out of a job. Facing the knowledge she has no skills in the service positions open to women, Harry resolves to discover who murdered the steward, thus becoming a woman who can determine her own future. But as her investigation proceeds, a second murder demonstrates just how dangerous her knowledge is. Soon, no matter where she rides, she finds that somebody is following her.
Part coming-of-age and part cozy mystery, All Men Glad and Wise confronts a time of tremendous social change: the inequities of service jobs, the quandaries of grooms as technology advances, and the patriarchal assumptions that exclude women from valued work and riding astride. Harry, like horsemanship-and like England-is on the cusp of a world looking forward.
