Death on the rocks
Subtitle: a John Rawlings mystery
By: Deryn Lake
Series: A John Rawlings mystery -- 15
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780727883544
Subjects: Social life and customs; John Rawlings (Fictitious character); Inheritance and succession; Impostors and imposture; Pharmacists; Fiction
Description: Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor claiming to be the long-lost step-son of a wealthy Bristol merchant in possession of his dead wife's diamond inheritance. John Rawlings' father, Sir Gabriel Kent joins him on the trip to take the healing waters at Hotwell where they socialize with the crème of Bristol society. But Rawlings is compelled to try and solve the mystery and so he must trawl through the underbelly of eighteenth-century society to unearth the sordid secrets at the heart of the investigation.