Snobbery with Violence
After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers’ debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose’s father suspects that her fiancé, Sir Geoffrey Blandon, is a first class scoundrel and calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to...
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After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers’ debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose’s father suspects that her fiancé, Sir Geoffrey Blandon, is a first class scoundrel and calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate.But when a malicious guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Rose becomes far more interested in discovering the truth than in landing a more appropriate suitor. As Harry and Rose begin to unravel this web of lies and rumours, a clever murderer sets out to make Rose’s disastrous first season her last.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780792740254 (0792740254)
Publish date: August 1st 2006
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Crime,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery
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