A family affair
By: Caro Peacock
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780061447495
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Social life and customs; Women detectives; Murder; Brothers; Women private investigators; Fiction; Investigation; Inheritance and succession; Illegitimacy; Liberty Lane (Fictitious character); History
Work titles: Corpse in shining armour
Description: Benjamin Disraeli asks Liberty Lane, a young gentlewoman who supplements her meager means with some discreet private sleuthing, to investigate Lady Sophia Brinkburn, who is spreading word that her elder son is illegitimate as her mad husband nears death. With the succession of the family title in question and a major scandal brewing, murder soon becomes a family affair. Set in 1830's Victorian England.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2009 by HarperCollins under the title A corpse in shining armour.

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