An amusing brew of mystery and romance that will keep fans turning the pages.

Publishers Weekly

Fans of the author's Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries . . . will welcome this new series of historical whodunits.

Booklist

Lady Rose Summer prides herself on not being a jealous woman - and she knows her engagement to Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ruse to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval - French, curvaceous, flirtatious - starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything.

In a fit of temper Rose threatens Dolores - only to be found the very next day standing over her dead body. Only Harry can clear Rose's name - and to do that he has to put the real murderer behind bars...

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Delightful Regency romance from the author of the Agatha Raisin series; now a major new drama from Sky 1
An amusing brew of mystery and romance that will keep fans turning the pages. - Publishers Weekly

Fans of the author's Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries . . . will welcome this new series of historical whodunits. - Booklist
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The fourth in M.C. Beaton's Edwardian murder mystery series - a must for all her fans

Product details

ISBN
9781849012928
Published
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group; Robinson Publishing
Weight
160 gr
Height
178 mm
Width
142 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
256

Author

Biographical note

M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-two million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries, and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky. M.C. Beaton's legacy continues as her good friend and fellow author R. W. Green has taken on the mantle of writing more crime novels featuring her two most beloved creations, Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth.