A Necessary Evil
โ Scribed by Hannah March
- Book ID
- 111881284
- Publisher
- Headline
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Series
- Robert Fairfax
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781472229731
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The fifth novel in the gripping Georgian mystery series chronicling the adventures of Robert Fairfax. A must-read for fans of historical crime fiction.
To Bath in its Georgian heyday come colourful visitors - the grand, fortune hunters, heiresses, invalids and imposters. Among them is Colonel Sir James Delabole - wealthy, gouty and seeking to make amends for a disreputable past.
When flamboyant Sir James is found poisoned, Robert Fairfax, tutor and amateur sleuth, discovers there is no shortage of suspects. To investigate, Fairfax must enter a murky world of greed, scandal and deception, and he soon finds that the elegant spa is not such a healthy place to be...
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