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Nine Coaches Waiting
First published 1958
English governess Linda Martin travels to the Château Valmy in the French Alps to care for Philippe, the orphaned heir to a large estate. The household offers elegance and security, but a series of accidents convinces Linda that someone may be preparing to remove the boy before he can inherit.
Her growing attraction to Philippe’s cousin Raoul complicates the question of whom she can trust. Drawing on governess fiction and Gothic country-house suspense, Stewart uses the mobility and restored luxury of post-war Europe to conceal an intimate struggle over money, guardianship and murder.
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