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Barcode30053003858431
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF RILE
Title Murder in Drury Lane / Vanessa Riley.
Author Riley, Vanessa, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003858431F RILE3/18/2025 Available

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Personal Name Riley, Vanessa, author.
Title Statement Murder in Drury Lane / Vanessa Riley.
Edition Statement First Kensington hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2023.
Physical Description viii, 322 pages ; 22 cm.
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Series Statement The Lady Worthing mysteries
Summary, Etc. "Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the town's judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition--and her fears that someone from her past wants her permanently silenced. But on one particular June evening everything collides, and the performance takes an unwelcome turn... Onstage, a woman emits a scream of genuine terror. A man has been found dead in the prop room, stabbed through the heart. Abigail's neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, is also in attendance, and the two rush backstage. The magistrate, keen to avoid bringing more attention to the case and making Lady Worthing more of a target, asks Abigail not to investigate. But she cannot resist, especially when the usually curmudgeonly Henderson offers his assistance. Abigail soon discovers a tangled drama that rivals anything brought to the stage, involving gambling debts, a beautiful actress with a parade of suitors, and the very future of the Drury Lane theatre. For Abigail the case is complicated still further, for one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart--the abolition of slavery within the British empire. Uncovering the truth always comes at a price. But this time, it may be far higher than she wishes to pay"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Fiction. Investigation
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term London (England) Fiction. Social life and customs 19th century
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft
Series Added Entry-Personal Name Riley, Vanessa. Lady Worthing mysteries.

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