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Death of a dishonorable gentleman, by Tessa Arlen

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Death of a dishonorable gentleman, by Tessa Arlen

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Death of a dishonorable gentleman

Oclc number

903897233

Responsibility statement

by Tessa Arlen

Series statement

Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery

Summary

Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and class prejudice, is pointing towards her son as a potential suspect. Taking matters into her own hands, the rather over-imaginative countess enlists the help of her pragmatic housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, to investigate the case, track down the women that vanished the night of the murder, and clear her son's name. As the two women search for a runaway housemaid and a headstrong young woman, they unearth the hidden lives of Lady Montfort's close friends, servants and family and discover the identity of a murderer hiding in plain sight

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