Miss Lotta Leadpipe Book -

The pet parrot repeats “Down by the well” eight times. Lotta discovers a second body in the well — the family gardener.

Lotta balances her lead pipe on its end. It falls toward the vicar, who flees. Chase scene through the hedge maze. miss lotta leadpipe book

Miss Lotta Leadpipe is no ordinary Victorian governess. Armed with a sharp mind, sharper cheekbones, and a six-pound lead pipe she calls “Persuasion,” she’s the most unconventional detective in London’s elite circles. When wealthy industrialist Cornelius Vane is found crushed to death in his own conservatory — with a bronze statue of a swan as the unlikely weapon — Lotta is summoned by the grieving (and secretly relieved) widow. The pet parrot repeats “Down by the well” eight times

But Lotta isn't buying the obvious suspects. Between a philandering nephew, a disinherited botanist, a spiritualist medium who speaks in coupons, and a parrot that quotes Nietzsche, Lotta must use her pipe not as a weapon, but as a pendulum to swing between lies and lethal truth. It falls toward the vicar, who flees