Book Stalls

The only way you can do all you want to do is read.

I've stalled around too long. At 58, I realize that many of the things I've imagined doing probably won't get done. Luckily I can read about them. Here are ten adventures I'll have only by reading a book. Do you recognize the book?

1. Work as a companion to a wealthy woman in Monte and end up owning a fabulous English manor where they have servants, a boathouse and a dog named Jasper.
   
2. Immigrate from England to Boston, married to the son of the governor, live on Long Island and ultimately marry my one true love.
   
3. Be a spy in East Berlin.
4. Travel from Ireland to become a maid in a wealthy New York family, and somehow inherit all their money and start a dynasty. (I think it involves having the illegitimate child of one of the sons, who later dies in a war, and then springing the child on the old grandmother when she's writing her will.)
5. Teach school on an island in the Caribbean to poor, illiterate children.
6. Teach school in the Appalachians Mountains to poor, illiterate children.
7. Solve grisly murders in England with my partner (who is royalty.)
8. Save myself by living alone in the woods when my plane crashes and everyone else is killed.
9. Wear a ham costume and be taught to read by my father during the depression.
   
10. When another lawyer in my office is killed, be suspected as the murderer, and later find out my spouse did it.

Can you guess all 10 books? Post your answers in the comments section, and leave some clues about your own favorites. Don't stall around!

The answers are here.