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 Author Name: ROSS, Kate
Title: Broken Vessel, A
Binding: Softcover; Mass Market PB
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: Reprint
Size: 289 pages
Publisher: NY Penguin c1994, 1995
ISBN Number: 0140234535 / 9780140234534
Seller ID: 6173
Light spine and cover creases, slight edgewear, page edges pale yellow. A nice copy.; Highly recommended, there are only four mysteries in this series as the author passed away in 1998.; This 'second mystery featuring Julian Kestrel, the Regency dandy, teams him with Sally Stokes, a cockney prostitute who helps him solve a clever and devilish murder. One night, as is her custom, Sally steals a handkerchief from each of her three clients. In one, she finds a letter from a woman being held against her will and begging for help. A concerned and frightened Sally runs into her brother, a reformed pickpocket and Kestrel's valet. Soon she and Kestrel are matching wits to find the owner of the handkerchief and locate the desperate woman. Through dogged legwork they locate the three men, each from a different strata of society but each of whom has something serious to hide relating to a young heiress, the Reclamation Society, and the seamy underground life of London's Haymarket District. The clues come thick and fast in this action-packed mystery. Ross provides a good look at the beginnings of the London police force as well as the working of the English courts and the role of magistrates in this authentic view of early 19th-century social life.'
Julian Kestrel Murder Mystery Regency England Mystery
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