The Rose in the Wheel - Hardcover

Rizzolo, S. K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 189020885X ISBN 13: 9781890208851

Verlag: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002

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This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London. Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to helping poor women. One wet November evening a carriage mows down Constance outside her office. Curiously, while her corpse s one foot is bare, the other is shod in a clean satin slipper despite the muddy road. Why was a gentlewoman abroad in the night? And if she died under the wheel, whose hands bruised her neck and stole her monogrammed crucifix? Dismissing the idea of an accident, Bow Street Runner John Chase forms an unlikely alliance with Penelope Wolfe, wife of the chief suspect. A young mother paying the price for an imprudent marriage, Penelope is eager to clear her husband Jeremy, a feckless portrait painter whose salacious drawings of the victim suggest an erotic interest. Chase s first task is to learn the identity of the mysterious benefactor who goes bail for Wolfe while Penelope traces the victim s last movements. Barrister Edward Buckler, intrigued, shakes off his habitual lethargy and joins their investigation. As horrifying murders on the Ratcliffe Highway claim all London s attention, the trio discovers that it won t be easy to unravel the enigma of Constance Tyrone, a woman who revives the legend of martyred St. Catherine.

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London, November 1811 The clatter of wheels broke the stillness. Two horses strained in harness, nostrils flaring, breath steaming in the night air. Wrapped in a greatcoat and low-crowned hat, the driver rode hunched over, face hidden by his scarf. A gloved hand cracked the whip. Faster. The woman lying in the road seemed unaware of her peril.She kept her eyes fixed on the church rising against the night sky. As the mists parted, the rose window emerged, a circle of textured shadow patiently awaiting the sun's fire. The horses reared, and...

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• Verlag: Poisoned Pen Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 189020885X
• ISBN 13: 9781890208851
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
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