The Lady of Capensthwaite Hall

The Lady of Capensthwaite Hall is a short story set in the Lord Peter Wimsey fandom, originally written for the Chocolate Box gift exchange.

The events depicted should be assumed to take place in the May following Harriet and Peter’s wedding the previous October.

Helen, Duchess of Denver is notorious for press-ganging her family into doing favours for her friends and acquaintances and generally rearranging their lives to suit no-one’s convenience but her own. But she’s overdone it this time, turning a simple request to Peter and Harriet to drop off a package of printers’ proofs on their way North to Dumfriesshire into an overnight stay at a remote mansion in the wilds of Westmoreland, their host someone no-one, not even Helen, has met before and whom they only know to be a master of the uncanny tale.

For RipplesOfAqua.

Warning: The author chooses not to warn.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to caulkhead for betaing.

The original central cover photograph is of a ‘A New Map of Great Britain by Herman Moll’, published by Thomas Bowles, 1729. The fonts used in this book are from the Source Serif Pro font family by Frank Grießhammer.

The images and fonts were used under license detailed on their respective website pages at the date of this book publication.

As usual, Russ from shoes for industry designed the book cover, produced the books and compiled the on-line work.

The opinions, prejudices, faults and spelling herein are all my own work, and I apologise in advance for them.

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This short story is rated PG. You might also like to consider other books set in the Lord Peter Wimsey fandom.

- First Edition: 3rd Feb 2019

This work is created as a transformative work on a not-for-profit basis. All rights in the underlying properties are those of their respective holders.