The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099506119 (0099506114)
Publish date: December 6th 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Albert Campion 9 (#17)
Tim Kinnit, an adopted child, is about to get married when his belief about his past (that he was a by-blow of the wealthy family who adopted him) is overturned, and the need to know who he is overwhelms romantic interest. [I note, though, that he was perfectly fine not knowing anything about his r...
[These notes were made in 1990:]. I read this in the 1990 Avon reprint of the 1962 edition. Family secrets. A long-gone slum area, cleared after it was bombed in the war, holds the key to the identity of a young man brought up to believe he was probably the illegitimate (but still well-born) son of ...
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