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The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
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The Tale of Oat Cake Crag

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Works by best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert have been nominated for the Agatha and Anthony awards. In The Tale of Oat Cake Crag, Miss Beatrix Potter is frustrated by distractions near her home. As the noisy test flights of a hydroplane disrupt her concentration, Beatrix investigates a string of bizarre letters threatening a friend's reputation. Then life becomes even more complicated when the body of the hydroplane project funder is found at the foot of Oat Cake Crag.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 25, 2011
ISBN9781461847908
The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
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Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of over one hundred books. Her work includes four mystery series: China Bayles, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries. She has also published three award-winning historical novels as well as YA fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction. She and her husband live in Texas Hill Country, where she writes, gardens, and raises an assortment of barnyard creatures.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Charming, oh-so-quaint characters with little plot. If you crave a serious whodunnit, look elsewhere.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Miss Beatrix Potter is back at Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, away from her parents in London and all the contentiousness there. No sooner does she arrive than she is asked by a widowed friend, Grace Lythecoe , to look into the source of some nasty, threatening letters she’s been receiving about her upcoming marriage to the local vicar. Miss Potter also frets about her own engagement … one she’s kept secret from her parents. The village is consumed with talk about the hydroplane that’s buzzing here and there, interrupting the quiet of the countryside and scaring the animals. Then the plane’s financial backer is seriously injured in a fall from Oat Cake Crag. And it appears that the Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, is interested in the hydroplane for use in the war everybody thinks is coming, and plans a visit. While the “big people” are busy, the animals go about their daily business – and the people of Near Sawrey would be surprised how much they know about village business, both public and personal. They, too, are concerned about the hydroplane and one particular animal denizen, a young dragon, is concerned that if he doesn’t show his mettle to the powers-that-be, he’ll be stuck for life in a dead-end job.The Tale of Oat Cake Crag is #7 in one of my favorite “mystery” series. I never thought I’d enjoy stories that feature talking animals who are endowed with many human characteristics. But Susan Wittig Albert’s “cottage tales of Beatrix Potter,” readers want to believe. The third-person narrator is a time-traveling wonder, capable of living in the past – 1912 in this book – and giving readers the perspective of a modern person. Plus she has a wonderful, wry sense of humor … if she isn’t the best third-person narrator in the business, I don’t know who is!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another in Albert's delightful Beatrix Potter series. This one involves an aeroplane flying around and bothering both the people and the animals who live in the Lakes District of England. Of course, Beatrix is involved in a secret romance due to the vehement dislike that her parents have of the idea of her ever marrying. And the animals are up to their own goings-on. These are great fairy-tales for adults with a hint of reality thrown in for good measure.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is an entry in a very charming little series based on Beatrix Potter's life. The sense of time and place makes these books particularly special. Although the mystery in each is not generally true to history (neither are the talking animals...probably), the spirit of Beatrix's life is there, and this entry is a very satisfying one.