𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦
Cover of The maharani's pearls: a Bess Crawford story

The maharani's pearls: a Bess Crawford story

✍ Scribed by Todd, Charles

Publisher
Witness Impulse; HarperCollins ©2014
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
45 KB
Series
Bess Crawford Mystery 9
Category
Fiction
City
India,India.
ISBN
0062369237

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford's curiosity about this exotic country sometimes leads her into trouble.

One day she slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village. Before this woman can finish telling her fortune, Bess is summoned back for an afternoon tea with the Maharani, a close friend of her parents'. The seer's last words are a warning about forthcoming danger that Bess takes as the usual patter. But this visit by the Maharani has ominous overtones that mark it as more than a social call. Her husband has political enemies, and she has come to ask Bess's father, Major Crawford, for help.

As the Maharani is leaving, Bess notices that there is something amiss with the royal entourage. Major Crawford must set out after them—but will he be in time?

And what will happen to Bess, and the household left behind, when a vicious assassin circles back to take hostages?

Here is an extraordinary glimpse into the childhood of the Bess Crawford we know from her service in the Great War.

✦ Subjects

India

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

cover
A Hanging at Dawn: A Bess Crawford Short Story
✍ Todd, Charles 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 HarperCollins; Witness Impulse 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB

**“ Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters.” – _The Sun-Sentinel_** **From the _New York Times_ bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon’s past.** Years before the Great War summone

cover
A hanging at dawn: a Bess Crawford short story
✍ Charles Todd 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Witness Impulse 🌐 en-US ⚖ 117 KB

**"Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters." -The Sun-Sentinel** **From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon's past** Years before the Great War summoned Bess

cover
Bess Crawford - 01 - A Duty to the Dead
✍ Charles Todd 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 189 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his b

cover
The pearl sister: CeCe's story
✍ Lucinda Riley 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Atria Books 🌐 English ⚖ 753 KB 👁 1 views

From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, *The Pearl Sister* is the next captivating story in *New York Times* bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Aplièse has always felt like an