The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as âmystery fiction at its finestâ When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends dashing rake Jeffrey Wynne to bring her home from the court of Englandâs greatest enemy. But upon their return it appears that a mysterious portrait and a childâs nursery rhyme link vivacious Peg to a bawdy old seamstress who resided near London Bridge and was quite literally scared to death. The old womanâs murder is but one thread in a web of conspiracy that includes blackmail, court intrigue, and an underground club that has made a hobby out of murder. With Pegâs life at stake, Wynne will do everything he can to trace the diabolical connection between the two womenâand resist falling in love.
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