Keeping Bad Company |
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Author:
| Peacock, Caro |
Series title: | A Liberty Lane Mystery Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-78029-020-1 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
Publisher: | Severn House
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Imprint: | Crème de la Crime |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Private investigator Liberty Lane faces the most challenging case of her career in this absorbing mystery -London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant’s assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay. A connection between the dead man and...
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Private investigator Liberty Lane faces the most challenging case of her career in this absorbing mystery -London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant’s assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay. A connection between the dead man and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade has caused the government concern. Can Liberty solve a murder that took place six months previously almost five thousand miles away?