" The folks at home thought you were dead?’ asked Eleanora. ‘Understandably,’ said Lady Hardcastle. ‘We’d been gone for nearly two years. I think we only trekked a couple of thousand miles, all in all, but there were mountains, jungles, more chaps with sticks – you know the sort of thing. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)