A perilous undertaking : a Veronica Speedwell mystery
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- ISBN: 9780698198456
- ISBN: 069819845X
- ISBN: 9780451476159 (hardback)
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1 online resource. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley Books, 2017.
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Genre: | Electronic books. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. History. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution. By the best-selling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. - Penguin Putnam
The âwickedly clever and devilishly amusingâ*Â Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries.
London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible taskâsaving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangmanâs noose in a weekâs time if the real killer is not found.
But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural-historian colleague, Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer. From a Bohemian artistsâ colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed...
*SusanElia MacNeal