- Mystery, Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, London (england), fiction
INTRODUCING A FEISTY NEW HEROINE (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) whos thirty-fourth in line for the throneand flat broke.From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries!Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. Shes bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where shell experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRHoh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Rhys Bowen
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 330
- Publisher
- Berkley Prime Crime, Penguin USA, Inc., Berkley Hardcover
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781436229135
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Rhys Bowen is the *New York Times* bestselling author of two historical mystery series, as well as the #1 Kindle bestseller *In Farleigh Field* and numerous other international bestsellers. Rhys was born in Bath, England, and educated at London University. Her books have been nominated for every major mystery award and she has won twenty of them to date. They have been translated into twenty-two languages, including Chinese and Arabic. As a child, Rhys spent time with relatives in Wales. Those childhood experiences colored her first mystery series about Constable Evans in the mountains of Snowdonia. That series includes the Edgar nominee *Evan’s Gate*. She has lived in England, Germany and A
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