By Stephanie Barron
In her most modern spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to monitor over the printing of her first novel, and reveals herself embroiled in a criminal offense that can finish greater than her profession. For it really is as much as Jane to tease a assassin out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer a dastardly demise.…
On the heels of finishing experience and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane road for a monthlong stopover at together with her brother Henry and his spouse, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the trendy nice on the top of the Season, Jane is definitely conscious of their secrets and techniques and peccadilloes. yet even she is shocked whilst the intimate correspondence among a Russian princess and a admired Tory minister is released within the papers for all to work out. extra stunning, the disgraced attractiveness is quickly stumbled on along with her throat slit on Lord Castlereagh’s very doorstep.
Everyone who’s an individual in excessive society is sure the spurned princess devoted the violence upon herself. yet Jane is unconvinced. Nor does she think the minister to blame of so grisly and public a criminal offense. Jane, even if, is keen to enable another individual investigate—until a quirk of destiny thrusts her and Eliza into the guts of the case…as best suspects!
Striking a discount with the professionals, Jane secures seven days to save lots of herself and Eliza from putting. yet as her quest to unmask a killer takes her from the halls of presidency to the drawing rooms of London’s so much celebrated courtesan, just one factor is certain: her failure won't merely lower brief her existence. it will probably bring about England’s downfall. A compulsively readable, uncommonly dependent novel of ancient suspense, Jane and the Barque of Frailty once more proves Jane Austen a sleuth to be reckoned with.
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Tilson. " Tilson's countenance eased, and he reached for his wine glass. "I could wish his friend Lord Moira at the ends of the earth, that is all. Henry may chuse to style his lordship as a great and useful patron -- a name that lends tone to our banking concern -- but the Earl is importunate in his demands for money, and a Whig besides. One might as well throw silver down a hole as lend it to a member of the Carlton House Set! Our thousands are gambled away in a single hand of whist! " I asked.
We had indeed ventured into Surrey last night, despite all my doubts regarding Sunday travel, to enjoy an evening of music at the d'Entraigues abode. The old Count spoke nothing but French, and I understood but a fraction of the communication, tho' Henry admirably held up his end, and declared the gentleman to be a man of parts and considerable information. The son, young Count Julien, who appears everything an Exquisite of the ton should be, with his excellent tailoring, his disordered locks, his shining boots, and his quantity of fobs and seals, delighted us with his superior performance upon the pianoforte.
Siddons being rumoured to appear, after too many months' absence from the stage; the play Macbeth, with all the hideous power of Shakespeare's verse and Sarah Siddons's art; and the Polite World of London brawling in the midst of Bow Street, in an effort to reach its place in the box before the curtain should rise. Such a welter of chairmen, link boys, fashionable carriages, street sweeps, porters, and coachmen! Such oaths, blasted into the ears of delicately-nurtured females, carried hurriedly to the paving lest their satin slippers should be soiled in the horses' dung!