Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel. South-east London, 1925. Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room''s closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor. Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating - and these investigations - than she''d bargained for.

About the author

Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The women of her family passed on many stories along with beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, and fostered her interest in the texture and narratives of women's lives. She is the author of the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011), and The Button Box: The story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore (2016). Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Knight, Knight Lynn
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9780857506467
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-646-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, c 1920 to c 1929, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General