num_pages: 278
description: To Bath in its Georgian heyday come colourful visitors, not the least curious is Colonel Sir James Delabole - wealthy, gouty and seeking to make amends for a disreputable past. His daughter, Caroline, has been brought up by her stern grandfather, who seems less inclined to forgive the past than Caroline herself. When flamboyant Sir James is found poisoned, Robert Fairfax, tutor and amateur sleuth, is engaged by the local magistrate to unmask the culprit, but he soon discovers there is no shortage of suspects - from the handsome young officer to whom the Colonel publicly extended the hand of friendship only to humiliate him most cruelly, to his browbeaten second wife. Investigating the mystery surrounding Sir James's death, Fairfax enters a murky world of greed, scandal and deception, and he soon finds that the elegant spa is not such a healthy place to be...
language: English
title: A Necessary Evil
titlecomplete: A Necessary Evil (Robert Fairfax, #5)
genres: Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 19
series: Robert Fairfax
publisher: Headline