Lady Dangerous

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Robinson holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of more than a dozen historical romances and a critically acclaimed historical mystery series, which she writes as Lynda S. Robinson. She lives in Texas. Klappentext Determined to find out if Viscount Radcliffe is the man responsible for her brother's murder, Liza Elliot poses as a maid in the house of the notorious Viscount Radcliffe and finds herself falling for the cold-blooded aristocrat.LONDON, 1857   If she was caught spying in the home of a viscount, she’d end up in Newgate. Was she mad to have come to the house of such a man as Viscount Radcliffe? His reputation conjured up visions of hellfire and brimstone, dark caverns that glowed with flowing lava and echoed with the screams of the damned. He was said to dine on innocents. But what choice did she have? The Metropolitan Police hadn’t believed her suspicions that he’d murdered two men.   Shuffling down the hall to the master suite carrying two buckets loaded with coal, Liza glanced back down the hall toward the servants’ door. Deserted. Perhaps she’d have time to search his rooms this evening. She must succeed soon, for he was returning from America shortly.   She had just set the buckets down and grasped the doorknob when a crash signaled that Tessie had dropped a lamp on the marble front stairs. A wail confirmed Liza’s guess, along with the outraged bellow of Choke, the butler. Then the volume of the noise rose. It seemed that everyone from the knife boy to the housekeeper was babbling and rushing to and fro. Doors slammed, and boots clattered on wooden and marble floors.   Liza hesitated on the threshold of the master suite. The coal wasn’t actually intended for these rooms, since the viscount wasn’t using them. The most she’d ever seen of him was the portrait in the blue saloon. She disliked the painting, for the man in it exuded the cold beauty of an aristocrat and gazed down on her with cat-green eyes that had no soul.   Perhaps he’d lost his soul somewhere in the American West in one of those gunfights she’d heard about. For some reason the viscount preferred the frontier to civilization. He’d spent several years in Texas and California after his military training. Liza knew of no other member of the peerage quite so willing to abandon civilization for the savagery of Indian territories and deserts. The man’s reputation for recklessness matched his reputation as a marauder among the ladies of Society.   She resented the man for that reputation alone. He was one of those men who seemed never to be without a woman, though never with one who held his affections. Sledge had offered the opinion that the viscount seldom spent a night without a woman. Liza sniffed when she heard this. Some men were truly animals. Tessie said he had not just one mistress among the nobility, but several, because the company of one woman bored him. How dare he possess a title, wealth, and beauty, and value his boot scraper more than the women to whom he made love? Liza disliked selfish men.   She especially disliked this one for sailing off to Texas two days after her brother had been murdered. She’d had to wait eleven whole months for him to return.   She started at the sound of running feet. If someone saw her, she had been planning to claim she mistook her way. Having pretended to a slight lack of wits, she might succeed in the pretense. Her plans fell to ruins, however, when Choke’s graying head and spindly shoulders appeared coming up the main stairs.   Liza stared, for she’d never seen the man run. Choke usually moved with the stateliness and care of a debutante at her royal presentation. The butler skittered down the hall shouting the names of the housekeeper and the two upstairs maids. He zoomed past Liza, the slick souls of his boots sliding on the polished tile...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Suzanne Robinson
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.1994
• EAN: 9780553295764
• ISBN: 978-0-553-29576-4
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 175 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Bantam Paperbacks; Bantam Paperbacks; Ladies
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi