I mentioned in an earlier post that the Darling Dahlias series by Susan Albert, set in the 1930’s, is not a time period I could remember reading.
One of my readers recommended the Grace and Favor series by Jill Churchill. I have read her Jane Jeffry series which is contemporary. Socialites Lily Brewster and her brother Robert find themselves going from rich to almost poor as a result of their father loosing all his money in the 1929 stock market crash. Living in New York in a small apartment they are just barely getting by when they learn they have inherited an estate in upper state New York on the Hudson river from an uncle. The will stipulates they must live in the house for ten years with all the capital in the house going to keep up the estate. In order for the siblings to make money the rent the house out to their uncle’s financial advisor and his wife as live in caretakers and cook.
The original name for the estate was Honeysuckle Cottage but they rename it to Grace and Favor due to the circumstances of their inheritance. You can look it up if you want to know what a grace and favor inheritance is. At any rate, the siblings start suspecting their uncle was murdered rather than killed by accident in a boating accident. Guess you and I both will have to read the book to find out what happens.