The China Governess
The golden sprig of a rich aristocratic family, Timothy Kinnit is about to marry the girl of his dreams. But when rumors start to circulate about his parentage, the young lady's father puts the kibosh on the wedding, and shortly thereafter, Timothy becomes the chief suspect in a housebreaking and...
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The golden sprig of a rich aristocratic family, Timothy Kinnit is about to marry the girl of his dreams. But when rumors start to circulate about his parentage, the young lady's father puts the kibosh on the wedding, and shortly thereafter, Timothy becomes the chief suspect in a housebreaking and a suspicious death. When Mr. Campion gets involved, he finds that somebody will go to very ugly lengths to keep Timothy from finding the answers he needs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380705788 (0380705788)
Publish date: March 28th 1990
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 265
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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