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Murder, Magic, and What We Wore

✍ Scribed by Jones, Kelly


Book ID
109800419
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
9 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553535204

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Fans of Patrice Kindl's Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . .

The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy.

Annis always suspected that her father was himself a spy, and following in his footsteps to unmask his killer makes perfect sense. Alas, it does not make sense to England's current spymastersβ€”not even when Annis reveals that she has the rare magical ability to sew glamours: garments that can disguise the wearer completely.

Well, if the spies are too pigheaded to take on a young woman of quality, then Annis will take them on. And so she crafts a new double life for herself. Miss Annis Whitworth will appear to...


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