Death and the Runaways (eBook)

Heather Redmond (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
320 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
9781496749086 (ISBN)

Infos

Two years before she would conceive ofFrankenstein,sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin becomes captivated by the grim murder of a pregnant shopgirl and the disappearance of her stepbrother, involving her stepsister Jane ';Claire' Clairmont and the seductive poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to solve the crime . . . London, June 1814: On a day out in Hyde Park to celebrate the peace treaty with France, Mary and Jane are less than charmed by their brother Charles's courtship with a girl from the local cheese shop. When Miss Winnet Davies is not swooning from the heat, she's imploring Charles to buy her a pretty dress. But he hasn't a tuppencenor have they, as their father, philosopher William Godwin, is facing the prospect of debtor's prison. When a constable arrives at the Godwin home the following day, looking for Charles, Mary and Jane learn that the lifeless body of Miss Davies was found hanging from a tree branch and an examination revealed she was with child. Their stepbrother has gone missing. Inclined toward morbidity, Mary assumes he too is dead, but her stepmother admonishes her and insists the sisters find their brother. Before they can search, a terrifying Bow Street Runner named Fisher calls and announces his intention to court Mary. Even if she wasn't passionately infatuated with married poet and radical Percy Shelley, she is horrified by the massive Bow Street Runner's plan. Despite this, to find their brother and clear his name, Mary and Jane alternately enlist the help of the experienced and intimidating Fisher and Shelley himself, who is as enticed by the opportunity to be close to Mary as he is intrigued by the mystery. But the unfortunate shopgirl is only the first to die, and soon the sisters and Shelley face a merciless quarry who will do anything to silence them. . .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: A Mary Shelley Mystery
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: Agatha Christie, Bookshop • amateur sleuth • andrea penrose • Anne Perry • Ashley Gardner • Byron • Cara Devlin • claire clairmont • C.S. Harris • Darcie Wilde • deanna raybourn • Detectives • England • female amateur sleuth • female sleuth • female sleuth historical mystery • feminist historical mystery • Frankenstein • historical murder mystery • historical mystery • Historical, Victorian, Gothic • Horror • Jennifer Ashley • Karen Charlton • Leighann Dobbs • literary figures • literary historical mystery • London • Lord Byron • Mary Shelley • Mary Wollstonecraft • Masterpiece Mystery • Mystery • nineteenth-century historical mystery • novelist sleuth • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Percy Shelley • Regency • Regency-era historical mystery • Regency historical mystery • Regency London historical mystery • Romantic Poets • Shelley • Sheri Cobb South • sibling rivalty • stepsisters • the alienist • Vanessa Riley • William Godwin
• ISBN-13: 9781496749086 / 9781496749086