The Angela Thirkell Barsetshire series

An ex-infantryman and P.O.W. comes to Devon School, a boys prep school, to teach and rest from the war in 1945. At Devon School after World War II, Pete Hallam finds violence and tragecy among his students.

Love and marriage — and delightful eccentrics — thrive in Angela Thirkell’s fictitious English county of Barsetshire. In this novel, Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt, sister of the Duke of Towers, marries elderly Rev. Oriel of Harefield, while a romance prospers between Lord Mellings and Lavinia Merton.

The ghostly cousins from Brief Candles are back to help a young relative who is being pursued by a determined widow, managing to help out with bank robbers, a duel, and a murder along the way.