A family affair

A family affair

Caro Peacock

Book - 2010

Benjamin Disraeli asks Liberty Lane, a young gentlewoman who supplements her meager means with some discreet private sleuthing, to investigate Lady Sophia Brinkburn, who is spreading word that her elder son is illegitimate as her mad husband nears death. With the succession of the family title in question and a major scandal brewing, murder soon becomes a family affair. Set in 1830's Victorian England.

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Subjects
Disraeli, Benjamin, > Earl of Beaconsfield, > 1804-1881 > Fiction.
Lane, Liberty (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Brothers > Fiction.
Illegitimacy > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Published
New York : Avon [2010], c2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Caro Peacock (-)
Edition
1st U.S. ed
Item Description
First published in Great Britain in 2009 by HarperCollins under the title A corpse in shining armour.
Includes "A+ author insights, extras, & more..."--Cover.
Physical Description
440, [5] p. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780061447495
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In Peacock's spirited third early Victorian historical (after A Dangerous Affair), Benjamin Disraeli asks Liberty Lane, a young gentlewoman who supplements her meager means with some discreet private sleuthing, to investigate Lady Sophia Brinkburn, who is spreading word that her elder son is illegitimate as her mad husband nears death. With the succession of the family title in question and a major scandal brewing, Lane rents a cottage near the Brinkburn estate to do some undercover snooping. She finds Lady Brinkburn both likable and sane, making her ladyship's motives for ruining her own good name even more puzzling. The murder of an unsavory family retainer and, later, Lady Brinkburn's own death darken the mystery further. The novel's amiable voice, crisp pace, and deft plotting are enriched by well-chosen glimpses of 1830s Britain, from the gentry's sudden craze for jousting to the new railway system beginning to change the landscape forever. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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