The Rival Queens: Countess Ashby de la Zouche #2
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934609757 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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M. Chandler said Great book, but series slow in America!. I love this series, the Countess and Alpiew are pure literary gems. I just wanted to let the readers know that this series is seriously slow in making it to the USA. The third and fourth installments "The Ambitious Stepmother" and "Fortune's Slave," have already b. a rollicking good read If you're in the mood for a wildly entertaining historical mystery novel, Fidelis Morgan's latest Countess Ashby de la Zouche/Alpiew adventure should more than satisfy. The book possesses a really interesting and engrossing storyline, colourful characters, and is . in a word: delightful. L.E. Jones Macknin in more words: historically accurate (well, as far as i know. she's the restoration actor/writer), good characters, good plot, never ever ever takes herself or her subject too seriously, great scatalogical detail and a damned fine mystery. i do not often give such
A lot of the fun derives from walk-ons by real people, such as the actor and playwright Colley Cibber, famous in his day for "improving upon the work of a barbarous Elizabethan third-rater named Shakespeare." Living nearby is an incorrigible old lecher who gives the Countess his memoirs. Restoration England will never be the same after this romp.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. She figures it may prop a table-surely no one will ever read Samuel Pepys. From Publishers Weekly In her second bawdy, madcap adventure (after 2001's Unnatural Fire), the incomparable Anastasia, Lady Ashby de la Zouche, Countess of Clapham, Baroness Penge (and former mistress to Charles II), aided by her faithful maid, Alpiew, faces "a brace of murders, an illicit marriage ceremony, an escape of a prisoner fr
Happily, scandals are falling in their laps like ripe plums. Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maid, the faithful Alpiew, are dashing around, plying their trade as scandal-mongers. But scandal takes on some gravitas when the Countess and Alpiew are hired to solve the murder of a popular leading lady. And things get yet more serious when they stumble into a mess of corruption with connections to the very furthest reaches of society.. London 1699