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Cargando... Petty Treasonpor Madeleine E. Robins
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Six months after the events of Point of Honor, Miss Sarah Tolerance is still working as an agent of inquiry, and is now tasked with discovering who was responsible for the brutal murder of a French émigré in his own bed. I liked that Madeleine Robins was careful to show that what happened in the first book did have an ongoing effect on Sarah and made her question her own judgement somewhat, but despite that Petty Treason overall felt like there was a little less at stake for her this time around. Fun, but lacking in that full-on escapist factor. ( ) This is the sequel to [book: Point of Honor], and once again Miss Sarah Tolerance (basically Elizabeth Bennett in rather different circumstances) must navigate through treacherous London to solve a mystery. After a much disliked gentleman is murdered in his bed, Miss Tolerance is called upon to solve the mystery. But there are too many suspects--the brutalized wife, the many men owed money, the victims of blackmail. The mystery itself is interesting, but what I really love about these books is how belieavable and fully characterized the characters, communities and city are. The first book in this series grabbed my attention because of the alternate history element. The mystery was fine, but I was more interested in the world-building that took place. With this second book, though there is a deeper exploration of relationship between two of the main characters, there is relatively little that is new in terms of alternate history. The mystery itself was well rounded, but again, I was looking for more exploration of this other England. The stories of both books remind me a bit of the Anne Perry ones, which I stopped reading after a while because of the sameness of plot. I think I may leave this series for a bit as well, unless I hear there has been something drastically interesting that takes place. Rounding up to 3 stars. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom." "Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword." "Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, a private investigator of sorts - the sole one of her kind in London in this year of 1810, with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting in the capacity of the "regency of the person" of the King. Her aim was to trace lost trinkets, send wastrel husbands back to their wives, and occasionally provide protection to persons with more money than sense - but she's continually drawn into the plots of others." "Her newest case poses a puzzle unlike any she has faced before: Who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French emigre was beaten to death in his own bed, found by his retainers the next morning, all the doors and windows of the house sealed tight. The murder is a classic locked-room mystery, but Miss Tolerance knows she can find the key." "As Miss Tolerance examines the situation and interviews witnesses and suspects, she realizes that things are far more complicated than she had originally suspected - for the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and Miss Tolerance is hard pressed to find someone who didn't wish him dead. Her search for his killer takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to the Royal Family and a Duke who must hide his perversions or risk the Throne."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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