A murder mystery is one of the genre of the 2016 Reading Challenge. This is no problem since I love that type of book.
Synopsis: Meredith is the headmistress at a girls school. In this role she oversees the 'finishing' of girls who would rather be out campaigning for women's votes, drinking in pubs and consorting with the 'wrong type' of men. However, when the ghost of a man hanged for murdering his father appears and demands her help to prove his innocence, she accedes and sets out to find our who really was the murderer.
Review: This is a nice 'cozy mystery' with the addition of the leading character seeing ghosts who are not at peace. It's also a superficial look at woman's suffrage including the abuse some females had to endure during the early 1900s. As the last book in the series it leaves a substantial number of 'loose ends'. ( )

Meredith Llewellyn has her hands full as headmistress of the Bellehaven Finishing School for Young Ladies trying to teach her female students proper manners, as well as making sure her assistant, Roger Platt, keeps his hands off said students. The last thing she needs or wants is a visit from a ghost who wants her to solve a murder, but that is just what happens when the ghost of Lord James Stalham appears to her. Stalham was accused of murdering his father and hanged for the crime but the more his ghost visits Meredith the more she becomes convinced of his innocence. Now, Meredith has even more work on her hands as he tries to not only solve the murder, but deal with a couple of housemaids who are determined to be suffragettes and a school full of girls who don't always behave as they should.

"Murder Has No Class is the third, and unfortunately last, book in Rebecca Kent's (a.k.a. Kate Kingsbury) delightful Bellehaven cozy mystery series. It is a shame really, because I thought this was the strongest book of the series as Kent seemed really comfortable with the characters at this point. As she did in the Pennyfoot Hotel and Manor House mysteries, Kent/Kingsbury populates the book with strong female characters - Meredith, her fellow teachers Felicity and Essie, and housemaids Olivia and Grace (Olivia more than Grace). Because this is the last book in the series Kent able to put in the book a few things about Felicity and Essie that helps explain why they sometimes act the way they do, which helps make them stronger characters. I even found myself accepting a possible Meredith/Stuart Hamilton romance - something I wasn't fond of in the two previous books. Besides the rich character development in the book there is a wonderful sense of humor throughout the book and readers will eagerly look forward to the events at dart tournament. The mystery and paranormal elements are well done and readers will be surprised and somewhat saddened when the killer is revealed.

Murder has no class is the excellently done final book in an all too short, cozy mystery series. ( )

This is the third (and the last) in Bellehaven House Mysteries. It is an Edwardian historical cozy mystery with Meredith Llewellyn, headmistress of a finishing school for young ladies - who sees ghosts as the main character. The book is set in England around 1905 in the midst of the Women's Rights movement

Lord James Stalham has claimed innocence in the murder of his father from the moment he was discovered standing over his father's dead body and even into death after being tried and hung for the murder. Now Stalham's ghost is haunting Meredith Llewellyn. The headmistress needs her sleep, so she sets out for the truth-and discovers a high-society scandal.

Meredith gets visits from ghosts who can't move on, usually because of a murder and justice hasn't been carried out. But Meredith isn't fond of seeing the ghosts nor helping out, in this case she does so to get rid of the pestering entity.

The main plot is who killed Stalham if his son is innocent, secondary plots are the assistant Tom Platt who is too friendly with the girls and just might be related to the owner, Felicity and Essie who are Meredith's sidekicks, and two trouble-seeking maids Grace and Olivia who want to stage a suffrage demonstration in the town pub and they recruit the school girls to participate, and then there is the owner of Bellehaven, Stuart Hamilton, it become clear he likes Meredith as more than the competent headmistress. When it is revealed that their is going to be a big dart tournament in the same bar and time as the demonstration the reader foresees the coming trainwreck and the question is how will everybody get out of the pending disaster.

Meredith came across a bit...

Read the complete review here:
http://mysterysuspence.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-murder-has-no-class.html ( )