M. C. Beaton

Marion Chesney

Exposing a suitor's dishonorable intentions toward the daughter of a new client, Captain Harry Cartwright is hired by a wealthy marquis to solve a house party murder, a case that is complicated by the host's determination to preserve discretion, in a mystery set in the Edwardian era. Reprint.

An Edwardian Murder Mystery

Snobbery with Violence

Tired of being a poor relation to England's upper crust, Lady Fortescue persuades the equally down-and-out Colonel Sandhurst to help her open a posh hotel.

Lady Fortescue Steps Out

Perfecting Fiona

The Taming of Annabelle

In need of revenue, elderly sisters Amy and Emily hire themselves out as professional chaperones and face the challenge of teaching manners to Miss Felicity Baronsheath or seeing their business venture fail

Refining Felicity

Animating Maria

When Minerva Armitage, the daughter of a country vicar, comes to London, a group of ladies' men become rivals for her affections

Minerva

Eager to seek her independence and become self-supporting, Lady Rose Summer leaves her parents' home to join the working class, but she is forced to put her new life on hold and rejoin London high society when one of her acquaintances turns up dead and Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard enlist her aid to uncover a devious blackmail plot. Reprint.

Hasty Death

Despite her friends' disapproval, Henrietta Bascombe sets up a London sweet shop to turn her pittance into wealth, but her new enterprise is threatened by the proud Earl of Carrisdowne, who sets out to ruin her business

At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple

Lady Chartres feels duty-bound to follow her dead parents' wishes and marry the Comte Saint Pierre.

The French Affair

Tired of living in poverty, Harriet Clifton invites herself to the posh London home of her widowed sister and attracts the attention of the dashing Marquess of Arden, on whom her vain, selfish sister has set her sights. Originally in paperback.

To Dream of Love

A prisoner of her cruel and openly unfaithful husband, Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, dreams of her true love, the Earl of Torridon, also trapped in a loveless marriage

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