An edition of The rival queens (2001)

The rival queens

a novel of artifice, gunpowder, and murder in eighteenth-century London

1st U.S. ed.
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An edition of The rival queens (2001)

The rival queens

a novel of artifice, gunpowder, and murder in eighteenth-century London

1st U.S. ed.
  • 1 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

London 1699. Those intrepid and impecunious heroines the Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant Alpiew are once more scavenging for scandal to entertain the readers of that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs as ever in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew are reduced to seeking refuge in a philosophical lecture at the York Buildings concert hall. But their expectations of a dull evening are confounded when one of the players staggers on to the stage, her hands dripping with blood. A doyenne has been decapitated under their very noses.

The unlikely sleuths find themselves with an abundance of suspects: players, phanatiques, punks, pink ribbons, a Punch and Judy man – not to mention a painter with a silver proboscis. Determined to leave no stone unturned, they pursue their quarry from the Tower of London to Bedlam, with a brief detour to the wilds of Wapping. Along the way they uncover (with a little help from Samuel Pepys) a web of intrigue and corruption that extends to the highest echelons of society and the judiciary.

-from http://fidelismorgan.net

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Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Pages
340

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Cover of: The Rival Queens
The Rival Queens: A Novel of Murder in Eighteenth-Century London
November 11, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: The Rival Queens
The Rival Queens: A Novel of Murder in Eighteenth-Century London
November 11, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: The rival queens
The rival queens: a novel of artifice, gunpowder, and murder in eighteenth-century London
2002, William Morrow
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: The rival queens
The rival queens: a Countess Ashby de la Zouche mystery
2001, Collins Crime
in English
Cover of: The rival queens
The rival queens: a historical mystery
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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6063.O715 R48 2002, PR6063.O715R48 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
340 p. ;
Number of pages
340

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3576367M
Internet Archive
rivalqueensnove00morg
ISBN 10
0688176844
LCCN
2002141556
Library Thing
316195
Goodreads
1476507

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