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Murder in Belgravia: a Mayfair 100 mystery

✍ Scribed by Lynn Brittney

Book ID: 100626636
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 174 KB
Edition: First North American edition
Category: Fiction
City: England., England--London., England--London--Mayfair., London (England), Mayfair (London, England
ISBN: 1683318951

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✦ Synopsis

A high-profile murder propels a unique crime-fighting team into the dark environs of London's underworld --and on a terrifying quest to track a ruthless killer.
London, 1915. As World War I engulfs Europe, a special task force is formed in the affluent Mayfair district to tackle the city's thorniest crimes against women. When the bobbies and Scotland Yard come up short, there's only one telephone number to dial: Mayfair 100.
An aristocrat has been murdered, and his wife, a witness and possible suspect, will only talk to a woman. With the blessing of London's Chief Commissioner, Chief Inspector Beech, a young man invalided out of the war, assembles a crew of sharp, intrepid, and well-educated women to investigate. But to get at the truth, Beech, Victoria, Caroline, Rigsby, and Tollman will venture into the the city's seedy underbelly, a world where murder is only the first in a litany of evils.
Lynn Brittney's Mayfair 100 series debut, _Murder in...

✦ Subjects

England -- London -- Mayfair

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