From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic, compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke's daughter-the perfect Victorian lady— who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle. Victorian London was notorious for its pick-pockets. But in the country houses of the elite, gentlemen burglars, art thieves, and con men preyed on the rich and titled. Wealthy victims with their pride and reputations at stake-would never go to the police. What they needed was a society insider, one of their own, a person of discretion and finely tuned powers of observation, adept at navigating intrigue. Enter Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest child of Queen Victoria's close friends the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Fiercely intelligent and a keen observer. Mary is also bookish and quiet, which means she's overlooked and significantly underestimated by all. It's the perfect cover for a sleuth, a role she stumbles into when trying to assist a close friend during a house party hosted by her parents at their stately Scottish home, Drumlanrig Castle. It is at this party where Lady Mary also meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, a distinguished and extremely handsome war veteran. Walter, like Mary. lives a double life, with a desk job in Whitehall providing a front for his role in the British Intelligence Service. To solve the most audacious crimes. the two form an unlikely alliance ...

ISBN: 9780063216822