The Sudbury School Murders
by Ashley Gardner

Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire, a school for sons of the wealthiest merchants and bankers in England. He discovers as soon as he arrives that he’s been hired for more than his letter-writing skills—a series of disturbing pranks have kept the school in an uproar. The headmaster expects Lacey to discover the identity of the prankster—immediately. Problems intensify when a groom of the school’s stables turns up dead in a lock of the nearby canal. A Romany is arrested for the murder, and it is clear that the local magistrates are happy to see him condemned without much thought. Lacey is the only person who believes the Romany innocent, and he must hurry to prove it before the young man is hanged. As Lacey investigates what the magistrates do not want him to discover, the intrigue surrounding the murder becomes as murky as the waters of the canal itself, putting Lacey and Grenville into serious danger.

Winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery.

Originally published June 2005 in mass market paperback by Berkley Prime Crime and January 2014 in eBook.

Other Books by Ashley Gardner

Blood of a Gladiator
Leonidas the Gladiator Mysteries Book 1

A Mystery at Carlton House
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 12

Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume Four
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 10-12

Murder in St. Giles
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 13

Blood Debts
Leonidas the Gladiator Mystery Book 1

The Hanover Square Affair
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Book 1

The Thames River Murders
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 10

Murder in Grosvenor Square
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 9

The Necklace Affair
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 4.5

The Glass House
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 3

A Regimental Murder
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 2

A Covent Garden Mystery
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 6

A Disappearance in Drury Lane
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 8

A Body in Berkeley Square
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 5

Ashley Gardner's Bio

Award-winning author Ashley Gardner also writes as New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ashley and national bestselling author, Allyson James. She has written more than fifty novels and novellas in mystery, romance, historical fiction, and urban fantasy.

When not researching or writing, she enjoys traveling, cooking, playing guitar, building miniature room settings, hiking, and drinking gourmet teas.

For information on her growing dollhouse miniatures collection, see Miniatures and jennsminis.wordpress.com For more information on her other novels see: www.jennifersromances.com and www.allysonjames.com