As the compounder of stillroom remedies, Tess had a reputation as a healer, until accused of witchcraft. Moreover, the corpse is identified as Tess Arnold, a servant at one of the area's great houses, whom Mr. George Hemming, prefers to remove the unidentified corpse to Buxton, rather than Bakewell, and they increase when the body proves to be that of a woman dressed in men's clothing. Jane's suspicions are roused when her escort, Mr. While enjoying a ramble in the Derbyshire hills near Bakewell (a town Eliza Bennett visits in Pride and Prejudice), Jane discovers the mutilated body of a young man. Jane Austen as sleuth continues to delight in her latest adventure (after Jane and the Genius of the Place), which sheds new light on the author's travels in 1806.
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