Receipts of the Dead: An Ada Harrow Mystery-Book One, (Paperback)

<p><b>London is issuing receipts for burials-weeks before anyone dies.</b></p><p>When a man is found peacefully suffocated and a violet RECEIVED stamp appears where grief should be, clerk-turned-investigator Ada Harrow begins to audit a city that thinks tidy paperwork excuses dirty air. With her sharp-eyed housekeeper Mercy, skeptical Inspector Murchison, and physician Dr. Silas Merton, Ada follows a trail of "adjustments" and blank labels to the Air &amp; Hearth Society, where charity is measured in Roman numerals and a valve's quarter-turn can make a gentleman sleep forever.</p><p>Every clue tightens the screw: bridges routed in pencil (<i>Blackfriars</i>, <i>Hungerford</i>), a little canister marked <i>No. 12</i>, and ledgers that pair <i>motive</i> with <i>XII</i> as if both belong in the minutes. At the centre stand secretary Mr. Whitcomb, treasurer Eldridge, and trustee Lawrence Shale-men who insist improvement is mercy, even as households learn to fear polite courtesies.</p><p>To balance the books, Ada will risk her shop, her freedom, and London's patience-because someone is stamping the city's dead RECEIVED, and has kept room for one more name.</p>

• Receipts of the Dead: An Ada Harrow Mystery-Book One, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798270530723
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-11-19
• Page Count: 288