George and Frances Roll the Dice (eBook)

Dianne Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
128 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4967-5618-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this Victorian-era mystery novella, the Countess of Harleigh, Frances Hazelton, and her husband, George, discover that a French seaside resort is a fetching backdrop for business, pleasure...and murder. Frances and George arrive in Deauville by the sea to enjoy a long-awaited honeymoon. It's also an opportunity for George to inspect a villa inherited by his ward and arrange for its sale. To the Hazeltons' surprise, they find it inhabited by wealthy revelers playing an illegal game of Hazardforbidden fun, hosted by Albert Roth, a charismatic professional gambler who has a lease and no desire to vacate. The discovery doesn't sit well with Frances and George. Especially since Albert also fixes horse races and polo matches and is said to pay off authorities who turn a blind eye to his criminal endeavors. But not anymore. The Hazeltons plan to break up the party. Yet the game abruptly changes when a popular British polo player who claims to have lost a fortune to Albert is found murdered in the villa's salon. Now Frances and George have to do more than prove ownership of the valuable Normandy coast property. They have to find a killer. They're sure all roads lead to Albert. But in a world of bribery, loansharking, corruption, and high society risks, nothing is what it seems. And for the Hazeltons, the stakes are getting higher...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: A Countess of Harleigh Mystery
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: Agatha Award • Agatha Christie • Alyssa Maxwell • amateur sleuth • British historical mystery • British polo players • Countess of Harleigh mysteries • cozy historical mystery • deanna raybourn • Deauville • Edith Wharton • family inheritance • female amateur sleuth • female protagonist • female sleuth • female sleuth historical mystery • framed for murder • gambling dens • Georgette Heyer • Golden age of Mystery • hazard game • historical murder mystery • historical mysteries • historical mystery • horse grooming • Horse Racing • independent women • Jane Austen • lighthearted mystery • Macavity Award • Mary Higgins Clark • Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries • Mystery novellas • nineteenth-century historical mystery • Normandy coast • Police corruption • polo matches • property disputes • rhys bowen • Tasha Alexander • Victorian England • Victorian mystery • witty cozy • witty mystery
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-5618-5 / 1496756185
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-5618-3 / 9781496756183