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Book Synopsis A Disappearance in Drury Lane by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book A Disappearance in Drury Lane written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 8 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey’s personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is frequently and frustratingly interrupted. He is also commanded by a new Bow Street Runner to assist in bringing down James Denis, a criminal with whom Lacey now has complicated ties. Lacey must help or else risk hanging alongside Denis. The search for the actress takes Lacey from elegant assembly rooms to the backstage of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where he finds darkness in all corners. Lacey’s life and honor are constantly challenged as he tries to settle into his new life, until he realizes he can follow no code but his own.
Book Synopsis A Disappearance in Drury Lane by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book A Disappearance in Drury Lane written by Ashley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late December, 1818. As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey's personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is frequently and frustratingly interrupted. He is also commanded by a new Bow Street Runner to assist in bringing down James Denis, a criminal with whom Lacey now has complicated ties. Lacey must help or else risk hanging alongside Denis. The search for the actress takes Lacey from elegant assembly rooms to the backstage of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where he finds darkness in all corners. Lacey's life and honor are constantly challenged as he tries to settle into his new life, until he realizes he can follow no code but his own.
Book Synopsis A Covent Garden Mystery by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book A Covent Garden Mystery written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 6 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries June 1817: Captain Lacey stops to assist a young woman in the market at Covent Garden, and realizes to his astonishment that she is his daughter. Lacey then discovers that his estranged wife and her paramour, a French officer, have journeyed to London at the invitation of James Denis to dissolve her marriage to Captain Lacey. Meanwhile, a Bow Street Runner and a man from the Thames River Police have asked Lacey to help them look into the disappearances of “game girls” from Covent Garden. The magistrates aren’t interested in their fate, but perhaps Lacey can learn a thing or two. Lacey agrees and recruits old friends to help. But when the goings-on in Covent Garden put his daughter in danger, Lacey’s crusade turns personal. He will do anything, and call in any favor from anyone, in order to protect his own Gabriella.
Book Synopsis The Alexandria Affair by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book The Alexandria Affair written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however—James Denis has tasked him with finding an "object" from ancient Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost. The task does not turn out to be so simple. Locating what Denis wants proves difficult, sending Lacey and Grenville exploring tombs along the Nile. Lacey must deal with treasure hunters, a shadow following him and his friends, murder, and missing his new family as he explores the exotic country he has so longed to see. Book 11 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series.
Book Synopsis The Hanover Square Affair by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book The Hanover Square Affair written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2011-02-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1816 Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, he struggles with his own transition from a soldier's life to the civilian world, redefining his role with his former commanding officer, and making new friends--from the top of society to the street girls of Covent Garden.
Book Synopsis The Roman Hat Mystery by : Ellery Queen
Download or read book The Roman Hat Mystery written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead man’s missing top hat.
Download or read book The Glass House written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 of the Captain Lacey Mystery Series On a cold January night in 1817, former cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey is summoned to the banks of the Thames to identify the body of a young woman. When Lacey looks down at the pretty, dead young woman, cut down too soon, he vows to find her murderer. Lacey's search takes him to the Glass House, a sordid gaming hell that played a large part in the victim's past, as well as to gatherings of the haut ton and the chambers of respectable Middle Temple barristers. Lacey uncovers secrets from the highborn and the low, finds himself drawn deeper into the schemes of a crime lord, and explores his tenuous new friendship with Lady Breckenridge.
Book Synopsis A Mystery at Carlton House by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book A Mystery at Carlton House written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder in Grosvenor Square by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book Murder in Grosvenor Square written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 9 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to. With the aid of Lucius Grenville, London’s most famous dandy, and Brewster, a ruffian employed by an underworld criminal, Lacey explores the world of molly houses and the double lives some men of society lead. His investigation takes him from the elegant mansions of Grosvenor Square to the squalid lanes of Seven Dials, to taverns that practice a highly illegal trade, spelling ruin and possible hanging for those caught within. Lacey once again comes into the realm of James Denis, a crime lord, when what appears to be a simple crime of hatred becomes far more complex.
Book Synopsis A Book of Scoundrels by : Charles Whibley
Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Body in Berkeley Square by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book A Body in Berkeley Square written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 5 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries In April 1817, a Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey’s former commander, Colonel Brandon. Instead of denying the charges, Colonel Brandon allows himself to be arrested, and claims, to Lacey’s shock, that the lady he’d stayed protectively near at the ball is his mistress. Lacey realizes that he is the only person not convinced of Brandon’s guilt—all present, including Brandon’s wife, believe Brandon committed the murder. Colonel Brandon’s reticence to tell the truth proves to be Lacey’s greatest obstacle in his race against time to prove Brandon’s innocence. Lacey’s hunt for evidence uncovers dark secrets that go back to the Peninsular Wars and involve the origins of Lacey’s and Brandon’s own private war.
Book Synopsis Murder in St. Giles by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book Murder in St. Giles written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Thames River Murders by : Ashley Gardner
Download or read book The Thames River Murders written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with his daughter’s come-out and more developments in his new domestic life, including a blackmailer who’s out to ruin Lacey any way he can. Book 10 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries
Book Synopsis The Ghost and The Lady by : Kazuhiro Fujita
Download or read book The Ghost and The Lady written by Kazuhiro Fujita and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2016 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mousetrap written by Agatha Christie and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melodrama / 5m, 3f / Int. The author comes forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
Book Synopsis Out of the Cold Dark Sea by : Jeffrey Briggs
Download or read book Out of the Cold Dark Sea written by Jeffrey Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Waterfront Mystery, featuring Martha Whitaker. The dark, cold waters of Puget Sound can hide its secrets for a long time. Until a body, picked clean by crabs and washed by tides, becomes a pile of white bones on the murky bottom. Secrets and long-held grudges arise like ghosts from a history long-forgotten.Because fear can be controlled doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And Martha Whitaker is afraid. Now Martha must solve mysteries old and new to clear her name. Before anyone else is murdered.Danger, murder, love, tragedy are all combined in this suspenseful thriller, Out of the Cold Dark Sea.Martha Whitaker has mastered her fear. But can she overcome betrayal without losing her soul?
Book Synopsis Women in Jeopardy! by : Wendy MacLeod
Download or read book Women in Jeopardy! written by Wendy MacLeod and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious comedy. Divorcées Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend. He’s not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer! After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure.
