![]() ![]() ![]() All these and more were in the vicinity of Madame Yvonne's at the crucial times, but our sleuths rather tediously work out a meticulous timetable, ask the right questions, and eventually trap the all-too-obvious killer. Scott, suing for Charlotte's hand, to her dismay, and involved with Jermyn in some clandestine business despite their mutual contempt the Earl of Pryme, Stella's family-honor-fixated father-in-law Jermyn's valet Preston, with a daughter defiled by his master. The pair soon discover a number of Jermyn's enemies, aside from cuckolded husbands-supercilious, elderly Lord E. Jermyn's widow and pretty niece Charlotte then appeal to Justin for discreet help, and policeman Watts is happy to make use of his upper-class entrÉe as well as his detecting skills. ![]() He's not seen again, however, until his murdered corpse turns up in a hospital dissection room days later. Claire, brings Jermyn to a secret trysting room in the plush dressmaking salon of Madame Yvonne, a mistress of many years before. An illicit rendezvous with Stella, Vicomtesse St. A second stylish bauble set in Regency London (A Reputation Dies), with scholar-adventurer-sleuth Justin Rutherford again aiding Bow Street Runner Joseph Watts, this time solving the murder of self-centered, womanizing Sir Aubrey Jermyn. ![]()
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