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Sick of Shadows
An Edwardian Mystery
Marion Chesney
ISBN: 0312998007
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
List Price: $6.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have
entered into an engagement of convenience-convenient for Rose, who
wants to avoid being sent to India with all the other failed
debutantes. Despite her considerable good looks, Rose's sharp intellect
and radical ideas have served to repel her would be suitors. Rose's
parents, unaware of the deception, are hardly thrilled that their only
child is marrying a man in trade, but Harry comes from a good family,
and at the very least, they hope he will keep their troublesome
daughter out of mischief.
Unfortunately, even a pretend engagement cannot save Rose from trouble.
Bored with endless parties, teas, and balls, she befriends Dolly
Tremaine, a beautiful young girl newly arrived from the country and
overwhelmed by the demands of the Season. Rose is delighted to have a
protégée but their friendship is cut tragically short
when Dolly is found floating in a river. Harry is summoned immediately
to help solve the mystery of Dolly's death, and to keep Rose from being
the murderer's next victim
Additional Notes:
3rd mystery in this series.
Marion Chesney also writes under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton.
Hardcover: St. Martin's Minotaur 0312329644, April 2005.
