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The Rival Queens - A Novel of Murder in Eighteenth-Century London

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Informationen zum Autor Fidelis Morgan is an actor and an expert in Restoration comedy. Acclaimed for her stage plays, Pamela and Hangover Square, she also collaborated with Lynda la Plante on England's Channel 4's tense pschological thriller Killer Net. She has written nonfiction studies of charismatic female figures from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and contributed to the bestselling Virago anthology Wicked. In her first novel, Unnatural Fire, she combined historical interest with her life-long passion for crime fiction. Klappentext London 1700. The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant, Alpiew, are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs, as ever, in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew escape to a philosophical lecture at the York Building's concert hall. But their dull evening is confounded when one player staggers onto the stage, hands dripping with blood. A doyenne has been decapitated under their very noses!The unlikely sleuths find an abundance of suspects: players, fanatics, a Punch-and-Judy man -- not to mention a painter with a silver proboscis. They pursue their quarry from the Tower of London to Bedlam, with a brief detour to the wilds of Wapping, uncovering a shocking web of intrigue and corruption extending to the highest echelons of society and the judiciary. Zusammenfassung London 1700. The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant! Alpiew! are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag! the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs! as ever! in hot pursuit! the Countess and Alpiew escape to a philosophical lecture at the York Building's concert hall. But their dull evening is confounded when one player staggers onto the stage! hands dripping with blood. A doyenne has been decapitated under their very noses! The unlikely sleuths find an abundance of suspects: players! fanatics! a Punch-and-Judy man -- not to mention a painter with a silver proboscis. They pursue their quarry from the Tower of London to Bedlam! with a brief detour to the wilds of Wapping! uncovering a shocking web of intrigue and corruption extending to the highest echelons of society and the judiciary. ...

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Authors Fidelis Morgan
Publisher Harper Collins Usa
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.11.2003
 
EAN 9780060522063
ISBN 978-0-06-052206-3
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Legal, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Legal

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