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| Publisher:
Prime Crime |
| Release
Date: May 2004 |
| ISBN:
0425196127 |
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| Format
Reviewed: Mass Market Paperback |
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| Genre:
Historical mystery (Regency era / military) |
| Reviewed:
2004 |
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A
Regimental Murder
A Mystery
of Regency England, No. 2
By Ashley Gardner
In Regency London, on a darkened
street, widow Lydia Westin is threatened and gallant Captain Lacey
comes to her rescue. When he takes her home, widow Westin attempts
to seduce him in her gratitude. She then learns what series readers
have come to know: that the captain is an honorable, haunted man.
When Lacey learns of the widow’s plight – her husband
was murdered – he takes up her cause. The good widow believes
her husband was killed by three men who both shamed and framed him.
Mr. Grenville, a dandy
to rival Beau Brummell, is attending a house party in Kent. The
three officers suspected will also be at the house party. Grenville
slips Lacey into this aristocratic house party, and together the
two try to solve Westin’s murder and clear his good name.
A Regimental
Murder is a complicated mystery and Lacey is unusually stuffy
for a Captain. Mr. Grenville is entertaining, but the rest of the
aristocratic society seems beyond redemption. A Regimental Murder
is written in first person and comes across in typical regency form.
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